Rainbow Rowell Quotes

It's so hard for every young person, trying to figure out the adult you want to be.

Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?

Drag Race' was when I was kind of confused about how I wanted to live the rest of my life and I was just having fun, a little ignorant, a little young.

I don't think anybody should regret the choices they made in their twenties.

Me personally, I'm a guy who it took a long time to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing. I relate to a lot of that finding oneself a little later in the game, or being thrown a curve later in the game.

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.

I'm turning 22, so I want to start getting into work that reflects where I'm at in life now.

Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin' dope, I started drinking, I started slowing down and trying to find myself. I didn't want to work in nightclubs.

I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.

I think I went through my phase of feeling sort of invisible when I left my small hometown in Canada and moved to the big city of Vancouver. I kind of had to decide right there in that moment what I was going to do with the rest of my life and make a thousand decisions after finishing high school. Fortunately, I chose acting.

I spent a lot of time flailing around, not really sure what I wanted to do, in my 20s and early 30s.

At 26, I barely knew who I was.

I started working at a time when most of my friends were still figuring their lives out.

College was such a pivotal time for me. It's a time when you have so much growth, and you kind of can choose one of many different paths.

It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically .

When you're a woman in your thirties, and maybe you don't really know what you want to do with your life, but it seems like everyone else does, and your best friend gets married, and it forces you to look at yourself. I don't know if I described that in a very funny way.

But I think half the battle is figuring out what works for you, and I am much better at being a mother than I ever would have been as a lawyer. I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere." - My Sister's Keeper

It's really something for people who are approaching 30 to take a look at what that means to them. I think turning 30 is a chance to re-identify with yourself.

You can't be afraid to not have everything figured out. There's too much pressure on young people today to have it all figured out when they're in college.

When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.

My 20s were a time where I made it; my 30s were when I was away, confused, and trying to figure it all out.

I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!

I don't think men figure out what they're really about until they're 25. That's when they start to feel like themselves.

I'm at this time in life when I have to take the opportunities I have left.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.