Younger Self Quotes

• It's very common to think that we're always evolving, that we've changed so much from our younger selves, that within decades we've transformed into these different people. We like to think that. I feel in some ways that I am still so much my younger self. There are ways that I'm different: I feel like I'm wiser and kinder. But I think a lot of the impulses are still the same. I learned that.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Thinking, Self, People

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I've been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I'd go back to my younger self and say, "Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don't be so anxious about everything. Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow."

  Bill Nighy

  Self, Yesterday, Anxiety

  Source: collider.com

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• If I could go back to my younger self, I'd be like, "Not everything's permanent."

  Mila Kunis

  Self, If I Could, Permanent

  "Mila Kunis on Life With Ashton and Making Babies: 'There's Nothing We Don't Know About Each Other'". Interview with Jonah Weiner, www.glamour.com. July 6, 2016.

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• We also need to learn the art of letting go: of the past, of unresolved grievances, of our younger selves. Nobody gets out of here alive.

  Gordon Livingston

  Letting Go, Art, Past

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• If I had to give my younger self some advice, I think it would be that you have to laugh at things-things that scare you, things that intimidate you, things that hurt you, When you're humiliated, when you're rejected, you have to be able to take these bad experiences you have and turn them into a great dinner party joke.

  Taylor Swift

  Hurt, Party, Thinking

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• My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out."

  Denise Duhamel

  Self, Advice, Chill

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.

  James Franco

  Thinking, Self, Casts

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• The advice I would give to my younger self is very, very simple: Stop burning the candle at both ends and renew your estranged relationship with sleep. You will be more productive, more effective, more creative, and more likely to enjoy your life.

  Arianna Huffington

  Sleep, Simple, Self

  "Arianna Huffington on Redefining Success, Creating Balance and Making Good Decisions". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired, but the life she was living, with all its complexities. This was her life, built with care and attention, and it was good.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Self, Care

  Kim Edwards (2010). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter”, p.328, Penguin UK

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• His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Teaching, Self, Taught

  Robert A. Heinlein (2010). “The Green Hills of Earth and The Menace from Earth”, p.284, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• I was self-conscious of being so lanky, of being me. I'd keep my head down, make excuses not to go out. I'd look in the mirror and hate myself. I thought I was disgusting. I cried constantly from 11 to 16. If I could tell my younger self anything, it would be to learn to love your flaws. It's OK to look in the mirror and feel really confident about yourself.

  Jourdan Dunn

  Hate, Love You, Mirrors

  "I want to talk about what goes on". Interview With Eva Wiseman, September 20, 2013.

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• The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just persevere. That feels brave to me: deciding that I'm going to damn well be this person that I've set my heart on being.

  Salman Rushdie

  Heart, Thinking, Self

  What I've Learned: Salman Rushdie" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 31, 2005.

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• I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.

  Gary Kemp

  Thinking, Self, Would Be

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• Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.

  Cornelia Funke

  Flower, Book, Smell

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.

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• I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.

  Carol Leifer

  Thinking, Self, Starting Out

  "The One Woman You MUST Know About Before Watching the Oscars This Sunday. (Hint: She's Known as the Real "Elaine" on Seinfeld!)". Interview with Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. February 24, 2012.

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• I hate mirrors; every time I look in one I see things that could be improved. If I could give my younger self any advice it would be: ‘Take a deep breath, the world is not ending – and do something with your hair.’ I had the same haircut from when I was a toddler all the way through high school, it was this weird side-parting. I didn’t like change.

  Chris Colfer

  Hate, School, Mirrors

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• I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now.

  Mike Oldfield

  Self, Lawyer, Collections

  "Mike Oldfield Interview for the Re-release of Tubular Bells". Interview with David Cheal, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2009.

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• If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Silly, Book, Writing

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• All you do is you go back to the Maida Vale Studios at BBC in London, and it feels like you're in a spaceship. It feels like you're in 2001 or something like that. It's massive and well constructed and highly technologically advanced and occupied by these wise scientists, engineers, and producers. Listening to it, it just doesn't sound like me - that's a younger self that didn't know who he was or what he was doing. I can't identify with a nebulous cloud.

  Will Oldham

  Wise, Clouds, Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was in my early thirties writing about my early twenties, so there was this way of seeing my younger self from enough of a distance to have perspective but also not to feel that I had to protect myself. My dreams for myself then would have undersold myself in a way.

  Dani Shapiro

  Dream, Distance, Writing

  "Book Release: Devotion". Interview with Kari Wethington, www.elle.com. January 7, 2010.

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• We lost not only through death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on. And our losses include not only our separations and departures from those we love, but our conscious and unconscious losses of romantic dreams, impossible expectations, illusions of freedom and power, illusions of safety -- and the loss of our own younger self, the self that thought it would always be unwrinkled and invulnerable and immortal.

  Judith Viorst

  Letting Go, Dream, Moving

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• I am charging you with the protection of my mother and friends, not to mention keeping my younger self off the Internet. He is as dangerous as Opal.

  Eoin Colfer

  Mother, Self, Opal

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• As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind to resist the blandishments of the enemies of promise. The sirens of ad-land sang sweetly and seductively, but I thought of Odysseus lashing himself to the mast of his ship, and somehow stayed on course.

  Salman Rushdie

  Pride, Dedication, Land

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• Hey, don't knock Judy Blume. Without her, my younger self would never have been able to decode the random acts of madness perpetrated by the fascinating creature known as the teenage girl.

  Ken Marino

  Girl, Teenage, Self

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. August 30, 2011.

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• When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.

  Aimee Bender

  Light, Self, Hands

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