Natalia Lafourcade Quotes

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 worst thing about age is not quite being able to do what you once did. The best thing is learning to accept what you've got and what you are.

The good part about getting older is you stop trying to prove anything to anyone, including yourself. All you are in the pursuit of is collecting experiences - beautiful, fragile little soap bubbles that you store in your heart, and every once in a while you pull one out and gaze at the delicate pictures it shows you.

I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.

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

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

I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.

Getting older has been a bonus for me. I feel lucky that parts are being written for someone my age and I am around to play them.

Everything that happens later in life is appreciated in a different way. You can appreciate the thing for what it is, which you couldn't if you were 25 and had never experienced much else. You would take it all for granted and think that's what life is like.

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.

One of the greatest things about getting older as an actor is that you settle into who you are and you don't begrudge everyone else what they have.

As I get older, I get happier.

I love getting older.

The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out.

Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well

People have asked if I would go back to my 20s, and I'm like, "Only if I could hold onto the wisdom and the things that I've learned." But in reality, I don't think I'd want to even go back then. I'm so happy with where I'm at. My life is very content. Everything feels really good. I wouldn't want to change any of that. I'm happy for all the ups and the downs, and everything that has led me to where I am. I wouldn't want to lose any of that.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

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.

A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.

I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it, despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.

I wear my lines like a soldier wears his medals. They've been earned. They've been fought for - so there's no reason to be ashamed of them. In your 50s, you just care less about that sort of thing. I think it's to do with what's inside you. You can't obsess about the outside.

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.