Maya Soetoro-Ng Quotes

Love them for who they are, and what they are they are; they are not you. Good stuff, isn't it? You have to live 73 years to get that.

There's a reason God didn't give me this success in my 20s, because I'd have blown it.

The - I don't want to say older, but the more experienced I get, I treasure and I honor what I've done much more.

Only humility can take you places.

The older you get, the more 'mindfulness' becomes about trying to remember why you came upstairs.

So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get.

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.

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.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

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

My whole life, I've wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

I'm doing my best to be mindful about how I'm living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

I think sometimes in life we rush and only later look back and say, 'Wow, that was something pretty cool that I did,' and we realize we should have been more aware while it was happening.

Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with yourself and with others, recognizing that there are millions of moments on the path to any worthwhile achievement.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?

The true exercise of freedom is - cannily and wisely and with grace - to move inside what space confines - and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

I thank God I didn't become successful until I was older.

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.