Jenny Lewis Quotes

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

What I learned on 'To Die For,' I learned over the years that followed, when some memory from the shoot would bubble up to the surface of my mind, and I could see it from a new perspective. I would usually cringe when that happened.

As long as you walk away from any experience, good or bad, with lessons and things you can take into the next experience, I don't think you can do anything but look back on it with an appreciation.

I've learned my lessons, but I'm also still learning them.

As an individual, I've learnt a lot about life - some things that proved to be helpful and some things I wish I never knew.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

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

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

Everything is a learning experience.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.

Certain things give you another perspective in life.