Miranda July Quotes

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My pen simply caught them and set the words on paper. I typed them up and turned them into a newspaper column of the 45 lessons life taught me. When I hit 50, I added five more lessons and the paper ran the column again.

With age and experience, I started to know myself better.

I had to have experience, you know what I mean? Because I've been doing this since I was 14... I couldn't write about anything at 14. I had to live some life. I definitely lived some life.

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.

As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

It's a beautiful thing at 60 to know who you are.

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

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 feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

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.

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.

The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don't need, what wears you out and what's important.

I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.

You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.

I've always thrown myself into different kinds of experiences, sometimes into really bad things. But, you grow up. You become more of a woman and you know yourself. I think knowing yourself is a wonderful thing especially when you're in your 40s and you're kind of in your skin. Life is not so confusing anymore.

As you get older, you come to a place in life where you can't just live in the present.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.