Meridel Le Sueur Quotes

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey.

I am not young enough to know everything.

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 gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.

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.

Age doesn't mean anything. Its all in your head. Men get sexier with age. They also get wiser and get experienced.

What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.

I may be getting old, but not foolish.

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

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

I find I'm an old soul.

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.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

A few years ago, I got to a point where I realised that the only way you can tell someone's age is how they live their life. The candles on the cake mean absolutely nothing.

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.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.

Everything you do, every experience that you have, enlightens you a little bit or worsens you.

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

Along with age comes more confidence, so it kind of works out.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

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.