Ryan McPartlin Quotes

Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

What we see changes who we are.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

Life gets more interesting as it goes on. It becomes fuller because there is perspective there.

Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.

I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over.

I played with Eddy Curry twice and in New York, the second time, he asked, 'Who are you?' My first to fourth year I was a different person. I started thinking big picture, that maybe I don't have all the answers.

I've tried to be more mature and my mindset is a lot different now.

We're learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.

It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They've made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

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.

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.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

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

I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.

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

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.

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

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.