Natalie Goldberg Quotes

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

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.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

You go through life and learn valuable lessons.

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

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

I have not an ounce of regret. Every link is so valuable in forming the chain that is my life. Who I am today is because of those links, and I wouldn't change any of them.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.

I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

It's been a funny life for me. Sometimes I feel I haven't done a lot of living.

I felt that with 'In A Perfect World' I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.

Oh my gosh, I'd give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it's going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I've already forgotten.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

I lived my twenties in a very public manner and if anyone's twenties are documented it's not always going to be pretty.

When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My pen simply caught them and set the words on paper. I typed them up and turned them into a newspaper column of the 45 lessons life taught me. When I hit 50, I added five more lessons and the paper ran the column again.