First Half Of Life Quotes

#1. The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

Pablo Picasso

#2. When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.

Richard Rohr

#3. The first half of life is spent mainly in finding out who we are through seeing ourselves in our interaction with others.

June Singer

#4. The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Mark Twain

#5. In the first half of life, we fight the devil and have the illusion and inflation of "winning" now and then; in the second half of life, we always lose because we are invariably fighting God.

Richard Rohr

#6. The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.

Richard Rohr

#7. The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

C. G. Jung

#8. Basically, the first half of life is writing the text, and the second half is writing the commentary on that text.

Richard Rohr

#9. An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first of your own half-dozen or even dozen children soon after you're grown, and die before your youngest has left home.

Jill Lepore

#10. It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half

Socrates

#11. For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.

Alphonso Jackson

#12. 'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.

Kate Christensen

#13. The first 'Half-Life' movie treatment pitched to us climaxed with a tearful reunion between enslaved Vortigaunts and their Vortiwives and children. The last one I saw had Black Mesa invaded by a cavalry unit, just so as to feature a scene of bullsquids tearing into armored horses.

Marc Laidlaw

#14. You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Saul Bellow

#15. I worked in restaurants the first half of my life.

Bradley Cooper

#16. In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden's compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed and where he had lived for the last half-decade of his life; the first, and only, journalist to do so.

Peter L. Bergen

#17. I always thought that I would spend the first half of my life making money so I can spend the second half of my life giving it all away. And one of the defining moments of my life was when I realized that I could do both at the same time with TOMS.

Blake Mycoskie

#18. Do you know, I spent the first half of my life avoiding motherhood and tires, and now I'm counting them as blessings?

Barbara Kingsolver

#19. I don't want to spend this last half [of life] trying to recapture the first. I want to stretch and grow and do bold things ... and question what I've been taught and generally alarm people with my broadmindedness.

Philip Gulley

#20. It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#21. To empty the heart does not mean to not love. On the contrary, true love, as God intented it, is purest when it is not based on a false attachment. The process of first emptying the heart can be found in the beginning half of the shahada (declaration of faith).

Yasmin Mogahed

#22. You may be sick of what you did the first half of your life, but you don't have to just walk around and play golf or doing nothing. It's not like fifty is the new thirty. It's like fifty is the new chapter.

Sharon Stone

#23. The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#24. My first year and a half in Hollywood, I did three films. Then in 1959, I was in 'Gidget,' 'Imitation of Life' and 'A Summer Place.' After that, I was a star. It was fun.

Sandra Dee

#25. Our first half is about how to make a living, and our second half has the promise of being about how to make a life.

Bob Buford

#26. Having devoted the first half of my life to the dark, I feel obliged to rever any pinpoint of light now.

Mary Karr

#27. Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!

Robert Browning

#28. For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.

Richard J. Needham

#29. Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.

Thomas Sowell

#30. The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

Mark Twain

#31. I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.

Dawn French

#32. For the first half of your life each minute feels like a year, but for the second half, each year feels like a minute.

Melanie Gideon

#33. First Memories
Without language we cannot create distinct memories,
that's why the first year-and-a-half of my life is still a blank,
other than a lingering vague premonition I owed
someone something.

Beryl Dov

#34. Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.

Blaise Pascal

#35. I have been listening to the Stooges' self-titled first album for well over half my life, and it remains one of the most exciting and essential records I have ever had the good fortune to come into contact with.

Henry Rollins

#36. You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.

Isabel Allende

#37. I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life.

Annie E. Clark

#38. A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.

Ann Landers

#39. I believe the second half of one's life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.

Frances Lear

#40. Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Robert Southey

#41. People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.

Richard Rohr

#42. I intend to live the first half of my life. I don't care about the rest.

Errol Flynn