Miranda July Quotes

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

I wish I could turn back time, but I can't. I made a stupid decision because I thought I was invincible, and I'll pay for it the rest of my life.

Every choice eventually leads to wisdom.

Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.

I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be.

The whole point of life is learning to live with the consequences of the bad decision we've made.

Don't mourn over your bad decisions. Just start overcoming them with good ones.

It's the story of my life. You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. Now, as you look through this document you'll see that I've underlined all the major decisions I ever made to make the stand out. They're all indexed and cross-referenced. See? All I can suggest is that if you take decisions that are exactly opposite to the sort of decisions that I've taken, then maybe you won't finish up at the end of your life" --she paused, and filled her lungs for a good should--"in a smelly old cave like this!

Age had taught him patience. Youth had taught me to get frustrated at the lack of progress.

To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.

When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.

He’d undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can’t call back the futures that your bad decisions lost

Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.

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

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.

Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.

The heart of wisdom is tolerance.

In a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it no human fellowship, least of all a marriage, can survive. Don't insist on your rights, don't blame each other, don't judge or condemn each other, don't find fault with each other, but accept each other as you are, and forgive each other every day from the bottom of your hearts.