Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

When you're older you want to learn from other people.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

In my fifties, I was still in creation mode. Now I have more of a responsibility to step back and mentor and offer wisdom, offer sign posts on the path.

In life, we all learn from everyone.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

My mentors in life are much older than me and have been through life. They can actually give me some sound advice on what I'm going through.

I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

Oh my gosh, I'd give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it's going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I've already forgotten.

I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you.

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.

As I go through life, I can see why my mother directed me that way, or why my father counseled me in that way. But some things you're open to when you're young, and some things you need to find out for yourself. I think that that's pretty universal.

I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

People say you become more cynical as you get older. That hasn't been my experience.

You go through life and learn valuable lessons.

How can you sing a line like, 'I've fallen out of love' when you're 18? You need to experience something of life before you can sing it.

I learn more from my kids then I have any professor in all my life.

I listen to the older people who talk to me. I call them my old heads, people with a lot of wisdom. They'll teach you a lot if you listen.

I get free life lessons from J-Hope and Jimin; sometimes it's like they're 10 years older than me.

I had to have experience, you know what I mean? Because I've been doing this since I was 14... I couldn't write about anything at 14. I had to live some life. I definitely lived some life.

I've lived a lot in the last 12 years or however long its been since Boy Meets World. I have a lot more to draw upon in playing Randy than I did playing Frankie. Although, I did have a lot of fun playing that role.