Lou Rawls Quotes

a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

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

You go through life and learn valuable lessons.

I want to be known as someone who grew up a little.

I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I didn't understand a thing myself. So I just had some livin' to do.

You mature, you learn things.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.

All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.

Through training there is knowledge. You can produce compassion, love, forgiveness. you can change yourself.

I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.

I'm trying to consciously evolve myself. I have no delusions of grandeur.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get that chance.

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

You cannot let go of anything if you cannot notice that you are holding it. Admit your 'weaknesses' and watch them morph into your greatest strengths.

I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.

It took a long time, and a lot of years, for me to get comfortable with myself, like the way I am now.

I wasn't perfect, although during the '60s, I may have appeared to be. After all, I was partying away there for awhile. From age 17 to 25, I worked only on the outer man, and I did pretty well, but I needed to go back and work on the inside.