Jalen Brunson Quotes

You go through life and learn valuable lessons.

I had to have experience, you know what I mean? Because I've been doing this since I was 14... I couldn't write about anything at 14. I had to live some life. I definitely lived some life.

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 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.

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.

What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.

People say you become more cynical as you get older. That hasn't been my experience.

Just as you get older, you gain more experiences, you see more things.

In most cases, a year older is a good thing. More wisdom, more experience, and less damns given.

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

I've seen a lot of things and I've experienced a lot of things.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

I like writing about the issues we all bump up against as we get older, but I try to present them in a fun way.

Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.

I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

Oh my gosh, I'd give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it's going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I've already forgotten.