Stendhal Quotes

You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it goin' on.

I deplore my shortcomings, but plan to keep them.

The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.

I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.

I'm a very contented, peaceful man. I made mistakes, yes, but I accepted them, and, I hope, graciously.

Everything I'm saying shouldn't be taken so serious. I'm playing, but at the same token, I'm acknowledging that I'm not always the perfect man; I'm not always doing the right things. That's who I am. I'm working to be better.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.

I'm a human. Every human is flawed. I might be flawed in different ways than some people, or worse ways than some people, or better ways than some people.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.

I think I'm a pretty open book. We're all a work in progress, and I'm not ashamed to say that I don't have it all together - I don't really think anyone does.

What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.

I know I'm not perfect.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.