Kiersey Clemons Quotes

I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.

To me, everything is always new. People involved in my personal life make fun of me a lot for not being jaded.

I've got a lot of experience under my belt, but I still have a very naive and idealistic outlook on life.

I really believe in completely being naive and having high hopes when meeting someone new. I can kind of re-do my stupidity or my naivete.

You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.

I've yet to meet a bitter teenager. Bitterness, jealousy and jadedness, I think, are the most unattractive qualities in a person, and unfortunately they do seem to come with age.

I have never been a cynical person.

Inside, I feel 30ish - I'm childish and optimistic.

I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.

You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness: a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say 'no.' But saying 'yes' begins things. Saying 'yes' is how things grow.

It's not often that you get to play somebody that has absolutely no cynicism or is not judgmental in any way.

I don't want to become a jaded person, and I don't want to be complacent.

I'm a grounded lad, and I just look forward to see what's going to happen in the future.

You gotta know when it's your time. You might wake up one day like, 'Damn, I just feel good,' but you've been feeling like that for a whole month. That's your season.

When I was younger, I took life much more seriously.

Back when I was an idealistic 18-year-old on my way to Chicago, I might have believed that being on the side of virtue would guarantee a good outcome. These many years later, I know better.

I have become a little more cynical and, I would like to believe, a little wiser. When I first came to Mumbai, I was very idealistic. Now I can look anyone in the face and tell a lie. But I'm in a good place.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic.

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.

I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter's tough, but spring's coming. I believe that there's a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better.

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.