Best Younger Self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I believe that there is a sacred child-like spirit in all of us (often referred to as our younger self or sacred inner child), one we can access and heal in recovery. We can gradually learn to integrate our youthful spirit into our everyday life. There is sweet sacredness when a person truly dedicates himself or herself to reclaiming his or her forgotten and abandoned inner child.”

Love Healing Recovery Drug Addiction Inner Child Sacredness Christopher Dines Drug Addiction Recovery Younger Self

Book:Drug Addiction Recovery: The Mindful Way

Source: Drug Addiction Recovery: The Mindful Way

“This one is for you, nineteen-year-old Richard.”

Young People Younger Self For You

Book:Pieces of a Broken Mind

Source: Pieces of a Broken Mind

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

Self Whole Lawyer Collections Younger Self

Author:Mike Oldfield

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

Thinking Self Casts Younger Self

Author:James Franco

“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.”

Needs Art Self Past Alive Letting Go Grievance Younger Self

Author:Gordon Livingston

“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.”

“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."”

Trying Self Today Easy Tomorrow Anxiety Yesterday Fortunate Relax Anxious Stolen Take It Easy Younger Self

Author:Bill Nighy

“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.”

Ifs Feels Looks Self Would Be Hate Love You Conscious Mirrors Excuse If I Could Flaws About Yourself Disgusting Cried Self Conscious Being Me Hate Myself Younger Self

Author:Jourdan Dunn

“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.”

People Thinking Way Feels Stills Different Self Common Changed Decades Evolve Impulse Transformed Wiser Different Peoples Kinder Younger Self

Author:Carrie Brownstein

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

Has Beens Self Advice Chill Younger Self

Author:Denise Duhamel

“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.”

Knows Feels Wells I Can Self Sound Wise Like You Listening Scientist Clouds Like Me Producers Massive Engineers Spaceships Younger Self

Author:Will Oldham

“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.”

Way Feels Writing Self Enough Dream Seeing Perspective Protect Twenties Distance Younger Self

Author:Dani Shapiro

“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.”

Giving Ends Self Enjoy Sleep Simple Creative Advice Burning Productive Candle Enjoy Your Life Younger Self

Author:Arianna Huffington

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

Ifs Self Permanent If I Could Younger Self

Author:Mila Kunis

“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.”

Self Care Father Attention Built Complexity Younger Self

Book:The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

“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.”

Ifs Years Looks Said Book Different Self Feelings Left Sound Strange Flower Pages Smell Familiar Feel Good Odd Finding Yourself Younger Self Inkdeath

Book:Inkspell

Source: Inkspell

“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.”

Self Mother Dangerous Internet Protection Charging Opal Younger Self

Author:Eoin Colfer

“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.”

Self Language Teaching Taught Grew Grew Up Capable Younger Self

Book:The Green Hills of Earth and The Menace from Earth

Source: The Green Hills of Earth and The Menace from Earth

“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.”

Self Hands Light Streets Green Ghost Younger Self

Author:Aimee Bender

“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.”

Ifs World Way Giving Looks Self Would Be School Hate Sides Advice Hair High School I Hate Breaths Mirrors If I Could Parting Deep Breath Haircuts Toddler Take A Deep Breath Younger Self

Author:Chris Colfer

“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.”

Has Beens Self Able Girl Known Creatures Madness Hey Fascinating Teenage Teenage Girl Younger Self

Author:Ken Marino

“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.”

Thinking Self Starting Uncomfortable Push Yourself Starting Out Putting Yourself Out There Younger Self

Author:Carol Leifer

“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.”

Thinking Feels Wells Heart Persons Self Would Be My Heart Decided Brave Excellence Idiot Damn Persevere Younger Self

Author:Salman Rushdie

“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.”

Feels Mind Looks Self Courses Literature Enemy Land Pride Promise Ships Advertising Ads Dedication Sirens Strength Of Mind Masts Odysseus Younger Self

Author:Salman Rushdie

“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.”

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Self Would Be Able Turns Hurt Party Laughing Advice Jokes Dinner Scare Rejected Intimidating Humiliated Dinner Party Bad Experiences Younger Self

Author:Taylor Swift

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

Thinking Knows Self Would Be Interviews Amazed Spectators Younger Self

Author:Gary Kemp

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