Gilles Marini Quotes

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

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.

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

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

Love has more depth as you get older.

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

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

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.

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.

Love is something that we need to learn.

As you grow older, you start looking at the bigger picture. You don't look at only yourself.

With age, you become more humble, more wise.

You mature, you learn things.

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

Understanding comes with life. As a man grows he sees life and death, he is happy and sad, he works, plays, meets people - sometimes it takes a lifetime to acquire understanding, because in the end understanding simply means having sympathy for people.

As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

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

If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more.

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

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

You should think about the world and feel about your heart.

Maturity implies otherness... The art of living is the art of living with.

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.

I would just like a woman someday, somewhere, at some point in my life to say to me, 'You're a great listener.' Haven't heard it yet, and that's a superior compliment to get from a woman. But I'm going to work on it.