Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

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

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.

As you get older, you kind of take on things and become kind of different than what you used to be as a kid, obviously.

Maybe in my 20s I was a little more lively. But I'm done with that.

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

Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.

Everything that I've done has made me who I am today. You know, it's cliche, but it's true.

It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.

We really can't boil a man's life down to seasonal divisions of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Seasons cycle perennially, and we enjoy them because they recur. We should understand a man's life this way too. An elderly person may yet see new springs and summers. On the other hand, some young people never escape winter. Others become ensnared by their own private autumns.

Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.

It doesn’t matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I’ll always discover something new about myself.

Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.

I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.

People have to go through things in order to become the person they are today, and that's that.

He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.

As you get older, you get a bit more serious.

As I saw my 60th birthday approaching, I thought,What did 60 mean to me? I figured I'd probably live until I'm about 90, which meant that I was at the beginning of what I call my third act. As an actress, I know how important the third act is. It makes sense of the first and second acts. You can have first and second acts that are interesting, but you don't know what they mean. Then a good third act pulls it all together. And so I knew that, because I sat by my father's side over the long months when he was dying.

You know every stage of your life has an impact on you.

I couldn't have children, I tried to for years. I've never been pregnant in my life. When I was a girl and fooling around I was scared to death I'd get pregnant, and then when I got married and wanted to have children I couldn't have any. But I don't miss it. I did for awhile, but I realize that I am everybody's mother.

I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.