Alexis Ren Quotes

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.

Aging doesn't scare me at all. You can handle the bumps each year. They're traumatic when you're younger, and they're hurtful, and you go through some terrible times, and you feel terrible.

I went through a lot, but as I went through it, I learned from the situations.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.

Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I'm definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type.

Some age, others mature.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

Every experience makes you a man.

Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.

I'm hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

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

I've seen my parents dragged through the mud. But I wouldn't be the person I am today without them.

I do believe in the old saying, 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

I think without struggle, you can't grow as a person - I think you need that in your life.

If I remember the suffering of my childhood and youth, it could make me sad. But if one thinks of the benefits, it is precisely because of these sufferings since I was small that I have become a man. I have become a person who thinks, who has feelings, because I have suffered.