Jack Kornfield Quotes

And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before.

We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind.

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.

I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.

Like many kids, I wanted to do my own thing so it wasn't until around the end of high school and start of college that I started to develop my own faith.

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

As the children get older and know what they want ... We all grew up at one point.

With few exceptions, the publishing industry has come to a consensus: if a book has a young protagonist, and if its worldview is primarily interested in the questions that crop up when coming of age, then it's a young adult novel.

I did not have the moments of so-called normal people during adolescence, like going out with friends, enjoying good times.

I think I am attracted to that time in life when your worldview is still forming in small ways.

You don't know who you are when you're 14.

If 'Queen Of Denmark' was about my childhood, then 'Pale Green Ghosts' is definitely about my adolescence, and that period was completely dominated by electronic music.

I read Jilly Cooper when I was on the verge of just growing up and I was becoming a woman.

I think you do a lot of your growing as a human being between the ages of 13 and 18.

I know it's hard to believe that I'm no longer the young 'Zuri' everyone has grown to love, which I truly appreciate, but like every young lady, I'm growing, I'm maturing and finding myself at 16 years old discovering the joys and pains of the world we live in.

Like me as a teen - and like many teenagers now - my characters are at a peculiar crossroads in their lives. They desperately seek freedom. But at the same time, they are constantly thwarted.

As a teenager, I didn't really think about anything. I was just stumbling around trying to find something.

Every teenager feels like a freak. It's part of being a teenager, part of the individuation from child to adult - those teenage years are who am I? What am I? Where am I going?

We all have to go through our own experiences of growing up.

I feel like we're always learning about ourselves, but at twelve, you're learning big things that shape your identity.

Growing up, I had a bit of an identity crisis.

For me, there's a deeper genre appreciation for what a coming of age story can be about. To apply that to a superhero world, for me, that was very exciting.

I think that every human - and this is something, you know, like, your years from 14 to, like, 23 are kind of, like, super, super existential, and you're figuring out life.

I went through so many phases when I was young - surfer girl, tom boy, punk - but they weren't mistakes, just moments.