Patti Smith Quotes

I've learned a lot. I've seen a lot. I've grown a lot.

I think you just learn so much about yourself over the years.

You are the best lessons you learn from life. I have grown up learning from my life.

You go through life and learn valuable lessons.

You have to grow up, and you learn things along the way.

I had to have experience, you know what I mean? Because I've been doing this since I was 14... I couldn't write about anything at 14. I had to live some life. I definitely lived some life.

Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

Every experience makes you grow.

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

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

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 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.

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

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

Oh my gosh, I'd give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it's going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I've already forgotten.

'Joy' to me is a reflection of the life experiences that I've had throughout the first record and kind of having some time and a hiatus. It's just like all of those experiences that I had during that period - that growing up period.

I think the beauty of growing up is not really knowing and figuring it out for yourself.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

I think that between 27 and 37 was a really big learning decade.

What can you know about life at 14? I have learned a lot since, but you learn slowly. You get hit by many things and try to make sense of it.

You want to be a citizen of the world, and then life happens, and you forget to be a citizen of the world; you're a citizen of your own existence.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Every person has his or her own journey.

When I think back on it, it's amazing what happens to us as we move out into the world.

So many things come with your maturation process. I changed throughout my time with WWE from a kid in his 20s into a man.