Patti Smith Quotes

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

As far as my mindset changing, I see myself having more empathy in my older age.

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

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

Love has more depth as you get older.

The more life you live, the more you are able to understand the experiences of other people. It's one of the few benefits of getting older.

Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.

The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get.

I think as you get older, there are things that there's just no light side to, but you know, I guess the more you empathise with people, the more empathy you have, the less you are able to see the lighter side.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

The difference between a 20-something and a 30-something man? Wisdom. At 20 years old, we don't really get how sensitive and beautiful women are. By 30, we're finally starting to learn.

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

Growing older has helped me become empathetic to other people and their reasons for making choices. I used to think there was a definitive right and wrong and that only I knew what they were and so I should be dictator of the world.

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.

You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

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 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.

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

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

I don't have many deal breakers. I've done so much in my life, it doesn't feel right to judge other people.

With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.