Soni Razdan Quotes

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

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

I always feel that life can teach you how to act. I'm always looking at life through other people's eyes. By feeling empathy. And I do feel that I am constantly learning.

As far as my mindset changing, I see myself having more empathy in my older age.

The more life you live, the more you are able to understand the experiences of other people. It's one of the few benefits of getting older.

You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

Love has more depth as you get older.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

The difference between a 20-something and a 30-something man? Wisdom. At 20 years old, we don't really get how sensitive and beautiful women are. By 30, we're finally starting to learn.

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.

At 40 years old you simply know what life is about.

When you have a fresh point of view that comes from the right side of the heart, it's just so valuable. You can take it or not take it, but just that perspective can give you a lot of strength or make you reflect on a lot of things.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.