Edgar Z. Friedenberg Quotes

Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.

By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.

If you have created an image of yourself at 13 and it is still with you at 17, it needs to be dropped.

Everyone's journey is completely different.

I feel like I didn't know who I was when I was 15. I don't feel like you're who you are for life, not even when you're 20.

Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn't always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me.

I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15.

You go through those awkward, dorky, geeky stages, and growing up in the industry amplifies all that. Fortunately, I have a mother who encouraged me to build my confidence from within and embrace my imperfections.

I'm okay with myself. I had times when I was 15 about 'Who I am?' and 'What am I?' and where I want to go, and that's behind me.

It wasn't until I could get out of Stanford that I could sit down and think about my life, to do the things that most kids do, which is to ask who am I, what do I want to be when I grow up. I never got to do Dan Pintauro.

Everyone goes through a weirdness as a young person, especially in college, when you're trying to figure things out.

I was a late bloomer in a lot of areas in life.

You don't know who you are when you're 14.

It's taken me a long time to own the early part of my life.

We all have to go through our own experiences of growing up.

The first album was a coming-of-age album - I don't like the phrase, but when you listen to it, you can tell I was having a hard time, that I wasn't socially relating to people.

No matter what you do in life, it's always a struggle, to first of all find who you are.

I do love the idea of people at a certain time in their lives when they're questioning, figuring out who to be. I find that interesting, but honestly, I think it's like that at every time in your life.

I went through so many phases when I was young - surfer girl, tom boy, punk - but they weren't mistakes, just moments.

Everyone goes through that time in their life when they're trying to figure out who they are, find their own purpose and their own way.

I think at some point during everyone's life, you finally figure yourself out. I haven't even done that yet. I'm still learning who I am.

Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another...The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness.

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

When you're living through it, though, especially when you are twelve and you think the whole world is changing until you realize it isn't the world, it's you, no piece seems little. It's all so big you think it can kill you. But it doesn't. Which is why the story goes on.