Iman Quotes

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

What happens when you get to the age of 60 is that you have no more doubts. I know why I'm here on this planet. I know what I need to do. I know what is a distraction and what isn't.

Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one's best, then at very least one's most authentic self. I always felt that my internal clock was calibrated somewhere between 47 and 53 years old.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.

Many years ago, I used to say, 'I haven't lived long enough to be great.' Now I don't say that.

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

As you get older your own problems are not that interesting.

I am all the ages I've ever been.

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

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

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

I feel like I've matured more musically than I have personally. But I totally embrace what becoming older has to offer. I find the wisdom that comes with each passing year is a trip.

A few years ago, I got to a point where I realised that the only way you can tell someone's age is how they live their life. The candles on the cake mean absolutely nothing.

Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.

Even though I'm over 35, I feel like so much more of a leading lady than I did when I was 30.

Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.

Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.

I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years.