Billy Bob Thornton Quotes

I don't claim to be someone that knows every verse in the Bible. I wish I did. I truly do. It just means I need to spend more time in those pages.

Lent is a time to renew wherever we are in that process that I call the divine therapy. It's a time to look what our instinctual needs are, look at what the dynamics of our unconscious are.

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.

So many things come with your maturation process. I changed throughout my time with WWE from a kid in his 20s into a man.

Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the clothes I wore when I was ten years old; but I have outgrown them. Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

If you knew me in the past, please do not think that I am the same person that you are meeting today. I have experienced more of life, I have encountered new depths in those I love, I have suffered and prayed and I am different.

I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions.

In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

I don't care if you are religious or not and I think the message is that at the end of the day, everybody has to mature and everybody has to heal and mend their own injuries, emotional injuries, on their own pace.

Also, I think women really come into their own in their 30s.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.

Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.

Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one's best, then at very least one's most authentic self. I always felt that my internal clock was calibrated somewhere between 47 and 53 years old.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.

My life is not separate from my music, you know? It's not like a day job that I leave and go home. It's who I am as a person and how I am trying to grow, come closer to God, be a better person.

Maybe in my 20s I was a little more lively. But I'm done with that.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.