Min Jin Lee Quotes

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.

If you've never been 40, you don't understand how it feels.

There's a confidence and sense of self that comes with age that I didn't anticipate.

We're both getting older, our children are starting to leave home. But I can say that I'm just as passionate a songwriter now in my 50s as I was in my 20s. But instead of talking about the general kind of angst that I felt as a teenager, I'm writing about more specific issues.

As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.

You are more thoughtful because you don't act as quickly anymore. When I turned 70 it was the first time I felt young for my age. Fifty dropped on me like a ton of bricks - there is something about that number - but when 70 came along I felt good about it.

It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.

I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.

Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, rather than the adolescent mindset, which for me lasted a long time, which says, 'It's all or nothing.'

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

I think I'm a little more mature than the average guy.

I'm 21 years old and I think that I've got a lot of perspective in life.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'.

One should mature over 20 years.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I'm definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type.

Some age, others mature.

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.

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

Love has more depth as you get older.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.