Elliot Cowan Quotes

I was mad until I was about 25. Completely out of control with my emotions. Everything that happened to me was a tragedy. I've been much happier over 25.

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

As we get older, we get better at choosing in ways that will make us happy. We do a better job at picking activities that make us happy, and at spending time with people who make us happy. We're also better at letting things go.

In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.

I'm very sentimental and ambitious. I like to be relaxed and I like to live a peaceful existence, but that's very difficult considering I'm very neurotic. On the inside, I'm very chilled - but on the outside I'm a big mess of worry!

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

I would say I'm quite happy in my life the majority of the time. Earlier in my life I was more questioning, overly trying to figure things out. I like this way much better.

There are times in my life when I haven't been happy. Sometimes it's not even physical, it's something else. The key is identifying why you're unhappy and doing whatever you can to fix it in a healthy way.

I still get crazy once in a while, but just less crazy.

I'm less Pollyanna now. That's probably healthy.

There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.

I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

You need to feed yourself with emotions and life or you'll become empty.

My feeling on therapy is it's a luxury, and if you're fortunate enough to get some smart people to talk to about life, then that's fortunate and you should go for it.

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

I feel more grounded and more settled than I ever have. I don't know whether that is to do with my spirituality or whether I'm wiser about life, but as you age you become more selective about what you listen to, devote your time to and who you hang out with.

The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.

My priorities are: I need to be good; I need to be well within for my children to be well within; and then the creative process flows, organically and smoothly. I'm not looking to experience what I went through in the 'Livin' La Vida Loca' days again.

In focusing towards the outer world, we celebs forget to focus on our inner well-being. We don't lead perfect lives, and only when we learn to have peace with our family members can we have peace in life.

The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.

When you mature, you also get more secure about yourself. You see things differently.

I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.