Cheryl Strayed Quotes

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get.

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them.

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

I have come to a point where I have accepted that not everyone is meant to be friends.

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.

I've become more empathetic, and my capacity to understand and be patient - to give people a break - has enlarged over the years.

When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.

One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens.

One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

Love has more depth as you get older.

I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.

With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.

With trials, you become wiser. You learn more about yourself and the people surrounding you. Me personally, I've never been the type of person to judge anyone over wrongdoing, no matter what it is. I'm just not a judgmental person.

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

I don't know whether your heart ever necessarily changes, but time changes the way that you perceive the world. And you just hope it gives you more empathy and all those other things.

Everything that happens later in life is appreciated in a different way. You can appreciate the thing for what it is, which you couldn't if you were 25 and had never experienced much else. You would take it all for granted and think that's what life is like.