Aldo Leopold Quotes

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

Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.

Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

Wisdom begins at the end.

My life experience has made me realise what's important and what is not.

I've seen a lot of things and I've experienced a lot of things.

You live out the confusions until they become clear.

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.

I look at the human life like an experiment. Every new moment, every new experience, tragic or otherwise, is an opportunity to gain a more accurate perspective and helps lead me to clarity.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

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.

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.

With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.

I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.

Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

Sometimes there are certain things that you gotta grow into. Sometimes, for some actors, they know it spiritually at a young age. Others need to grow into it.

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.

I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.