Garrison Keillor Quotes

I'm far more comfortable in my 40s than I ever was.

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

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.

The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me.

I feel really content in my 30s actually. I don't feel like the wisest person in the world but I definitely don't worry or stress like I used to.

I think that as you get older, you learn to live in yourself more securely.

One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are.

If one burdens the future with one's worries, it cannot grow organically. I am filled with confidence, not that I shall succeed in worldly things, but that even when things go badly for me I shall still find life good and worth living.

I just think that things get easier as you get older and wiser and more experienced. You get more confident about who you are as you get older. I find that really comforting.

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.

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

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

I'm definitely a lot more comfortable now in my 40s than in my 30s - that's for sure.

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

I'm finally looking older and inviting my wrinkles.

You know, once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself.

With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.

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

I don't have any issues with my age.

Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.

I'm so glad I'm not 20 years old anymore. I was in a hurricane. I'm a lot calmer now. I don't cause destruction for myself and others everywhere I go.

I love being middle-aged in general. I'm more at peace with myself now. I still have tormented times, but they are few and far between. You don't feel you have to be the centre of your world when you get older. Becoming a mother had been a turning point which stopped me from being the centre of my world.

I've been a much happier person in my early thirties than I was in my twenties.

When you mature, you also get more secure about yourself. You see things differently.

I think this is one of the benefits of getting older: that one has that perspective on things farther away. One is so caught up in middle years in the idea of accomplishing something when, in fact, the full accomplishment is always with one.