Jen Lancaster 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.

I'm far more comfortable in my 40s than I ever was.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

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.

I'm definitely a lot more comfortable now in my 40s than in my 30s - that's for sure.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

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.

I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.

I think the older you get, the more you know about life, and the more you learn about yourself and you become comfortable in your own skin. So the older I'm getting, the more fun I'm having.

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

I think that as you get older, you learn to live in yourself more securely.

The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.

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

To me, with age, everything has gotten better. You have way more control; you know yourself better.

I warn people, your 40s will require massive amounts of humor and humility.

The best thing about being 55 is that I know enough now to know what I want and what I don't want-and what I want is to have fun.

As I grow older, I put all life's bulls**t aside. I think the process of the laying off of the bulls**t starts around 40. Before that, most men have their heads stuck in their ass. After 40, you see things differently. You've found yourself. You're accepting yourself and what you got from life.

I just think that things get easier as you get older and wiser and more experienced. You get more confident about who you are as you get older. I find that really comforting.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

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

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff. It's funny now to think about it - that a friend getting a job or something had anything to do with me... I think that my relationship with my wife has played a pivotal role in the chilling out of Aaron.

One should mature over 20 years.

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.