Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

I learned from my past.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

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

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.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

All experience is good experience.

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.

Everything I did and continue to do happens for a reason, and honestly, I don't regret much in my life.

Life experiences can, at times, be quite humbling, but you learn from them. But I like the changes in my life and what kind of person they've made me into. I'm very open, not as judgmental as I was in my twenties, and a lot more compassionate.

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 become a lot wiser over the years.

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

Sometimes innocence is a good thing but I think life, experiencing different situations, different clubs, gives you a lot of knowledge.

As an individual, I've learnt a lot about life - some things that proved to be helpful and some things I wish I never knew.

Learning to live with the given is the great humbling educational process of life.

As you get older, you grow and you revaluate.

The more mature you get and the more you understand about life, your picture gets clearer, the focus gets clear.

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.