Ruskin Bond Quotes

When I was younger, I took everything seriously, and I still do to some degree.

When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.

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

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

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.

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

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

As you get older, you come to a place in life where you can't just live in the present.

As far as my mindset changing, I see myself having more empathy in my older age.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

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

I'm happy with getting older and getting more focused. I thought I was focused when I was young, but you're only as focused as experience will allow you to be.

It's so much more interesting having life under your belt.

Sometimes innocence is a good thing but I think life, experiencing different situations, different clubs, gives you a lot of knowledge.

Aging doesn't scare me at all. You can handle the bumps each year. They're traumatic when you're younger, and they're hurtful, and you go through some terrible times, and you feel terrible.

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.

As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.

I'm 21 years old and I think that I've got a lot of perspective in life.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

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.

Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.