Twinkle Khanna Quotes

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

I'm far more comfortable in my 40s than I ever was.

It's a beautiful thing at 60 to know who you are.

I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

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.

The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.

I think as I've gotten older and the things I've gone through, I'm not as concerned about what everybody thinks.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

I would say I'm quite happy in my life the majority of the time. Earlier in my life I was more questioning, overly trying to figure things out. I like this way much better.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

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

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

I don't know if there is a 'lack' of good black men. But when you haven't taken the time to get to know yourself, be OK with you, and articulate what it is you want in a relationship, then you can't possibly find that person for you because you don't even know what you're looking for.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.

The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.

The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

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

I think when we shot 'Tokyo Drift' I was a little too young to really understand what made Han who he is, and then I got older, and you start to make a little bit of money, and you realize that money will never buy you happiness.