Metta World Peace Quotes

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

I don't think I could give advice to my younger self because she probably wouldn't listen.

I made so many mistakes when I was younger.

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger

I learned from my past.

I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late.

And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

I was young and naive. I didn't have the advice I have now and made mistakes. I didn't understand it was about attitude as well as ability.

As an individual, I've learnt a lot about life - some things that proved to be helpful and some things I wish I never knew.

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

You're 30: You know stuff now. Your 20s were for 'ducking up,' as my auto-correct would say, and learning from those mistakes. (For instance, never again will I convince myself that sleep is for sissies and go straight from a party to the airport. You will not 'sleep on the plane'; you'll vomit in the security line. Go to bed.)

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

Kids, don't be too big to accept advice.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

I've learnt from my life experience.

In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.