Ann Brashares Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

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

With age comes a greater understanding and a greater worldview.

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.

One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens.

Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.

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

I'm not a mom, but I think the word 'mother' is about wisdom.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

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

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.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

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

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

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

I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along.

Watching children grow up, you learn a lot about life and about being a better person - you learn a lot about what's really important in the world and what isn't.

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

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.