Charlotte Caffey Quotes

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I was quite a different child, I felt isolated. In time, that level of being with yourself crystallises who you are, and you can see what other people are without being blinded by what they want from you.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, what to wear, how to be there. Being able to step away from that, I have an opportunity to look deeper into myself and look for what's real.

I invented myself.

All I know is myself and I don't plan on changing that.

You discover who you truly are only when you live alone.

It took living alone for me to really get to know myself.

Let each person in relationship worry about Self-what Self is being, doing, and having; what Self is wanting, asking, giving; what Self is seeking, creating, experiencing, and all relationships would magnificently serve their purpose-and their participants!

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

I was kind of smart enough when I was young, 14 or 15 years old, to realize that if you're ever going to do anything and step out of the shadow of your own dad - not only in hockey, but in life itself - you're going to have to learn you're Brett and not 'Bobby's son.'

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

I think when you're put into a completely different situation and environment, you really see who you are. You're not affected by what's around you. You are who you are.