Melissa Etheridge Quotes

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

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.

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

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons.

I was young and naive. I didn't have the advice I have now and made mistakes. I didn't understand it was about attitude as well as ability.

I have learned from my mistakes and become older.

I'm happy with getting older and getting more focused. I thought I was focused when I was young, but you're only as focused as experience will allow you to be.

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.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

I learned from my past.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.

But time growing old teaches all things.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

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.

At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

I've learnt from my life experience.

It's so much more interesting having life under your belt.

As you get older, you start to realise negativity is really bad.

I have learnt a lot from my past experience.