Myrtle Reed Quotes

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 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.

With time, you do get mature.

One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you.

You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.

When I went to college, I met a new group of friends and looked back on my high-school experience and realized how much time I had wasted on trying to make myself something I wasn't.

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.

It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things.

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.

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.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson.

If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.

I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.

People become more interesting from about 25 - they develop character and their personalities come out.

I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

It took me a long time to grow up.

When I was younger, I believed my inconsistency was due to my youth. I believed that age would teach me all I needed to know and that when I was older, I would have learned the lessons of life and discovered the secrets of true spirituality. I am older - a lot older - and the secrets are still secret from me.

I think, with more experience, I'm probably wiser, calmer. You hope you'll be able to use your knowledge a bit better.

You have to grow up, and you learn things along the way.

I think that no matter how old you get, you are always learning about yourself.

You grow, you mature, you live, and you learn. You get a little wiser, and you learn better ways to handle things.