Elisha Cuthbert Quotes

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

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

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

But time growing old teaches all things.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

As I've gotten older and my life is a lot more stable, I've gotten more into storytelling.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

The years teach much which the days never know.

What separates old from the young is experience and patience.

The more time passes in your life, I think the greater you understand perspective. So I'm happy that I've had experiences that have reminded me that most exciting things might not feel so exciting later, and the most disappointing things might not be so disappointing later, either.

The older you get, the more you've done.

It took me a lifetime.

Life will teach you, but you have to live long enough to get those lessons.

I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.

I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey.