David Rakoff Quotes

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

Also, I think women really come into their own in their 30s.

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.

So many things come with your maturation process. I changed throughout my time with WWE from a kid in his 20s into a man.

I have lived life enough to know that I define myself.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.

Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

I think you just learn so much about yourself over the years.

It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self.

As I grow older, I feel like my authentic self has been able to shine through more and more, and people can see that.

I've always been fascinated by this idea of who we are versus who we want to be.

The most important thing about a person is that you know who you are and what you want. You should be capable of introspection and evaluate yourself.

The camera doesn't make you a better person, it doesn't even change the person that you are, it just magnifies who you are.

We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die.

Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. … On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one’s own advice.