Helen Fielding Quotes

As I grow older, I put all life's bulls**t aside. I think the process of the laying off of the bulls**t starts around 40. Before that, most men have their heads stuck in their ass. After 40, you see things differently. You've found yourself. You're accepting yourself and what you got from life.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

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.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought I could, either in my own life or other people's.

The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.

As I get older, I'm more relaxed and less concerned with what people think of me

I cannot change another person. I let others be who they are, and I simply love who I am.

I sort of feel like it comes around again. That when you get to a certain age, when you've lived enough and you've got your friends to support you and your family to support you, you wake up one morning and think, yeah, I'm okay.

I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies.

I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown.

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

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

It's not that anything has changed about me, and, it's a cliche, but I think that as you get older, you learn to accept who you are, and you feel more comfortable in your own skin.

I highly recommend getting older! There's less tendency to people-please.

The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.

When I was in my 20s, I thought I knew who I was. And then as soon as I turned 30, I realized that person has bruises and bumps and dark parts. And you kind of go, well, that's it. I'd rather embrace it than force myself to change.

So many years later, you watch yourself, and you're not critical of yourself anymore 'cause that's behind you.

With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.

Just getting older, you stop caring what other people think, but also, you know who you are, and you know what you want.

The worst thing about age is not quite being able to do what you once did. The best thing is learning to accept what you've got and what you are.

If a person doesn't like me or doesn't like my game, OK, that's how they feel. Can't be upset with it.

I think as I've gotten older and the things I've gone through, I'm not as concerned about what everybody thinks.

I think that the older I get, the more I play, you realise when it's your time.

I'm getting older and I'm just coming to terms that I'm stuck with me so I better try to like myself.