Deborah Ann Woll Quotes

It was kind of a hard lesson when I figured out that not everybody is going to be kind, be sweet. So I've learned that I am never going to make everybody happy. There's always going to be someone who can't stand the way I write, and I can't take that personally.

Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations.

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

I'm a very contented, peaceful man. I made mistakes, yes, but I accepted them, and, I hope, graciously.

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

You don't become a fully-formed human as a female, or even a male, until you're at least 30.

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.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

You learn to accept your own reality.

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.

A character, their ability or inability to laugh at themselves should always be a very, very conscious choice. It's a very big key to the nature of a human being.

The course is going to make you look silly sometimes. You have to be able to accept that and move on.

You cannot control another human being, and you just have to learn to go with the flow and laugh at yourself, in whatever capacity.

Life is a massive amount of feelings with the occasional profound engagement with intellect. As I get older, I hope the intellect takes over.

I don't argue with people... if they say I'm not funny, they're right, for them.

Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things.

The feelings we all have as 50-year-olds are different than the feelings we all have as 30-year-olds. That informs everything we do.

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 always thought I could be brave and charge at things and smash 'em and walk away, but it takes courage to sit and look at things and say, 'This is what I am. How do I fix it? How do I live with it?'

Knowing what you want is not a shortcoming. Let people deal with their own anxieties.

Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way.

I think all of us make the mistake of thinking we're going to change people when we get together. But we're not. People are who they are. And people change in their own time.