Severn Cullis-Suzuki Quotes

Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.

When you're in your twenties, your brain hasn't even finished baking, and your hormones are giving you all kinds of direction of which ways to go.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge yourself.

I think it's unreasonable to expect kids at 17 to know what they want to do with the rest of their lives. And actually, I guess I had a desire to be an artist, and I did enroll in art school out of high school.

There is that time right around 30 when you think, your twenties have gone by, and now you really are a grown up, and you do have to figure out what you're going to do.

As you get older, life gets more complicated.

By the time you're 18, 19, you know yourself, and you shouldn't go against your gut feeling, which is a temptation in the first year of university.

Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative - a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life.

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.

I was 11 years old when I saw the first season of 'The Real World.' Initially, I was drawn to the show because it was what I imagined the adult version of my life should be.

I just remember that pivotal moment when you're a young adult, and you realize that these authority figures are human beings, too, and they're figuring out their lives just as you are, and they're flawed.

I've just grown up a lot and started to encounter some of the big decisions of life in terms of what career I wanted to do and figuring out personal relationships and things.

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.

I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived.

People forget that when you're 16, you're probably more serious than you'll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.

You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward.

When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.

A lot of first novels are coming-of-age stories. A lot are autobiographical.

My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did.

I've lived the life of a 35-year-old since I was 18.