Tullian Tchividjian Quotes

At 67, you are what you are. I think it's too late to change much.

I made my excuses and left, thinking, really, after a certain age, people are just going to do what they're going to do and you're either going to accept them as they are or you're not.

I'm happier in my thirties. I feel clearer about who I am and less apologetic about it, and more accepting of my limitations and also more aware of the ways in which I'm capable.

There was a time in my life when I used to plan elaborately; not anymore. I gave up when I realised nothing was going my way.

Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which cannot be changed, the courage to change that which should be changed, no matter what it takes, and the wisdom to know the difference.

You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you've tasted so much that you can somehow sacrifice certain things more easily, and you have a more tolerant view of things like possessiveness (your own) and a broader acceptance of the pains and the losses.

When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.

I don't think men figure out what they're really about until they're 25. That's when they start to feel like themselves.

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

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

I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown.

I'm less Pollyanna now. That's probably healthy.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am.

I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

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.

When you get to be a 45-year-old man, you start to realize: 'I know who I am, and I know who I'm not. I know my shortcomings, I know my strengths; maybe some of my shortcomings are my strengths.' You start to face yourself as you truly are.

You learn to accept your own reality.

At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.

I've never been more normal than I am now.

It's not that anything has changed about me, and, it's a cliche, but I think that as you get older, you learn to accept who you are, and you feel more comfortable in your own skin.

I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.

I think part of being an adult is leaving the fairytale behind.

When I turned 30, I realized how ignorant I really was. I always thought I had a very accomplished life.