M. F. K. Fisher Quotes

You grow up and share life experiences. That's one of the best parts of this business. You share how you're mellowing out and your new sense of self.

We can drop the fundamental hope that there is a better "me" who one day will emerge. We can't just jump over ourselves as if we were not there.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.

Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and - you know, for instance, my self-loathing.

I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.

Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.

I think high school's very difficult. You're figuring out your own power and your effect on other people. You look back and see how you spent so much energy on figuring out things with your parents or your peers.

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

I had my share of issues, but now, it's something that's made me who I am and no complaints.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

I have learned a lot about myself and come to deal with a lot of things that, at first, bothered me.

I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.

I think I needed the resilience of approaching my late 30s to come to terms with the resilience I required to learn to sing.

Yeah, I've had an odd youth, But I wouldn't know the difference if I'd lived it any other way. And I wouldn't change any of it because I quite like what I'm doing.

Right when I started touring, there was this wariness I had of the world outside of my small town. But I'm not that person anymore, and I was never completely that person.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Everything we do in our growing up has been done before. But it needs recognition and validation each time for each one of us - public, private, and secret.

When I was younger, I used to try to fit in, but now I'm much more comfortable with just being myself.

I'm happier in my thirties. I feel clearer about who I am and less apologetic about it, and more accepting of my limitations and also more aware of the ways in which I'm capable.