Raymond Carver Quotes

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

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

I'm open. All of my situations have made me who I am.

Once I turned 40, my whole life changed in the most mature - not boring way but much cooler way. I feel much more like an adult.

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 feel like I have grown up.

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

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.

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.

For me, my life is a journey.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

My life is better with every year of living it.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

I think this movie, 'Moneyball,' symbolizes becoming a man for me, and I think my character becomes a man. It's important to me: I'm becoming a man. I'm taking my life seriously. I'm taking my acting really seriously, and it's important for me to play adults. It's important for me to change and develop as I get older.

Life is definitely always about expanding. That's how we grow.

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.