Quotes About Younger Self

#1. She didn't want to forget how deeply she had loved him, how important it had been to her; she felt as if to discard the memory would be a betrayal of her younger self.

Harriet Evans

#2. A person can get ... stuck, for lack a better word, in a life. It's surprisingly easy, really. Hours bleed into days; days fade into months. Before you know it, years have passed, and you're just this person, someone your younger self wouldn't even recognize.

Kristen Callihan

#3. I walked, floated, lighter - forty miles, my biggest day yet. I'd lifted the burden of guilt and shame off my body. I held my new hard-won wisdom, the gift three months of walking in the wilderness had carried me to: compassion for my younger self - forgiveness for my innocence.

Aspen Matis

#4. In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to work on his time keeping, and that the job of a drummer is not to be the one that gets noticed the most on stage, or to be the fastest, or the loudest. Above all, it is to be the timekeeper.

Taylor Hawkins

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

Mike Oldfield

#6. Accordingly, the one respect in which I depart from my younger self is that I now regard those people who have little or no story to tell themselves as terribly fortunate.

Lionel Shriver

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Now it seemed like she could twist the lens on her life and see it from two entirely different perspectives. The perspective of her younger self. Her younger, sillier, innocent self. And her older, wiser, more cynical and sensible self.

Liane Moriarty

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Gary Kemp

#13. One thing I wish I could tell my younger self: take photos of everyday life, not special occasions; later, that's what will be interesting to you.

Gretchen Rubin

#14. I was a chronically shy child. That kernel of my younger self is still there, but I've developed mechanisms to deal with it.

Richard Eyre

#15. A youth is susceptible to the influence of idealist notions. As a person ages, they notice a gap between their expectations and reality and they grow more pessimistic about the world and their ability to live up to the lofty notions that inspired a younger self.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#16. Okay, this is going to be confusing, kid.-Amelia Pond to her younger self in the pandora box

Stephen Moffat

#17. Her shortsightedness had almost brought the entire multiverse to oblivion. That Admiral Janeway had chosen to die so her younger self and crew might live, but had that been a noble sacrifice? Or was it her only escape from pain she no longer knew how to endure? How

Kirsten Beyer

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

James Franco

#19. 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

#20. If I could go back and say one thing to my younger self it would be: YOU ARE NOT FAT.

Jennifer Saunders

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

Denise Duhamel

#22. 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

#23. Don't be special. That's what I would say to my younger self if I could pinpoint the moment when I went astray. But there was no one moment. I was always astray

Leila Sales

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. If only the last dozen years were just a dream my younger self was having, how wonderful that would be.

Inio Asano

#27. 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

#28. Well, you know, it's a younger person, and it was maybe an effort to be a little more sincere and adult about the lyrics occasionally, which is a good thing. It's nice that it's not too self-conscious like some of our lyrics could be.

Stephen Malkmus

#29. When I was younger, I didn't even know how to walk. I was so self-conscious.

Lil B

#30. There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.

Seneca The Younger

#31. I'm imagining the reader, whom I conjure as an aspiring artist much like my own younger, less grizzled self, to whom I hope to impart a little starch and inspiration and prime, a little, with some hard-knocks wisdom and a few tricks of the trade.

Steven Pressfield

#32. I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened.

Flannery O'Connor

#33. For younger kids, repetition is really valuable. They demand it. When they see a show over and over again, they not only are understanding it better, which is a form of power, but just by predicting what is going to happen, I think they feel a real sense of affirmation and self-worth.

Malcolm Gladwell

#34. The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

Seneca The Younger

#35. You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.

Norman Cousins

#36. Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.

Elizabeth Berkley

#37. When I was younger, I did self-mutilate. I'd be upset, so I'd do it, & it would calm me down. It's a horrible way to feel better. But there are two parts of your brain - one that really wants to destroy the other. & sometimes the idea of self-destruction is very romantic. I got over that.

Christina Ricci

#38. I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.

Richard Gere

#39. When I was younger, I was chubby. It gave me a terrible sense of self-image, and I guess I carry that around with me still.

Brandon Flowers

#40. There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.

Seneca The Younger

#41. Idealistic notions that guide a younger person frequently prove unsustainable. Concluding any stage of life demands that a person rebuilds oneself after living destroys our ideological beliefs.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#42. It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

Renata Adler

#43. There is really just one reason why I used to be slower when I was younger: I was holding myself back. I've learned that these self-imposed limits are soft and malleable, not absolute.

Diederik Van Hoogstraten

#44. When I look at myself as a younger actor, I see what a tight ass I was. I had a pretty big shadow because of my father and the comparisons. I was self-conscious about that. Now I realize there was nothing to be worried about.

Michael Douglas

#45. What would you say to yourself if you could actually meet a younger you?

Doug Dillon

#46. When I was younger, I was more self-conscious about living up to or surpassing the expectations of others. But as you get older, you start to build confidence.

Ivanka Trump

#47. To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman, tell her that you thought that she was younger than she is.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#48. Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get into high school.

Amy Chua

#49. The reason some younger women were willing to go out with my flabby, ageing self was that no one of their own age would put up with them for more than 10 minutes.

Mark Barrowcliffe

#50. I'm so happy that I finished college. Going into this crazy vortex of scrutiny is tough. If I was younger than I was now and I was going to fashion shows, I might have this distorted sense of self. I might rely on those cameras. Because when I was 18, I was half-baked.

Allison Williams

#51. I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.

Vincent Cassel

#52. Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.

Seneca The Younger

#53. Self-denial is the best riches.

Seneca The Younger

#54. Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands.

Timothy Ferriss

#55. I think that I was too self-centered to ever develop good skills as a peacemaker. In my younger days, I assumed that it was because I was smarter than everyone else, with no patience for explaining things in short words for mouthbreathers who just didn't get it.

Cory Doctorow

#56. For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#57. Things are so different now that it feels they were all different people then, like characters you read about in a book, not the younger version of your own self.

Neel Mukherjee

#58. Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance and image repair? When we die, do we want people to exclaim 'She looked ten years younger,' or do we want them to say 'She lived a great life'?

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#59. I remember walking into drugstores when I was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe. Having the control to dye your hair and change your look is such a part of self-expression.

Olivia Wilde

#60. To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging; men buy fast cars.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#61. Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.

Ron Suskind

#62. I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger.

Kristen Stewart

#63. As his self-defenses seemed to indicate. When the younger employee

Norman Vincent Peale

#64. I've come to realize we're all two different people. Our younger, innocent self that's inevitably mangled along the highway of life, and our tougher adult personal that evolves from the wreckage.

Phil Stern

#65. No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

Seneca The Younger