Quotes About Becoming Forty

#1. There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.

Epictetus

#2. My understanding was that it completed a person, sanding down the rough provincial edges and transforming you into a citizen of the world.

David Sedaris

#3. I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business.

Mike Curb

#4. At last someone takes me seriously.

Jeremy Paxman

#5. Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep; It hears a voice within it tell: Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well. 'Tis all perhaps which man acquires, But 'tis not what our youth desires.

Matthew Arnold

#6. As we learn to embrace our authentic longings and feelings - and cultivate self-empathy and the corresponding compassion toward others - our society will gradually evolve in a direction that is more tolerant, humane, and enlightened.

John Amodeo

#7. Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.

G. Stanley Hall

#8. few nights ago I was the topic of discussion, and we all decided I was an ignoramus.

Anne Frank

#9. By the time I was twenty-three, I'd given up any thought of becoming a fiction writer, and I didn't return to the craft for over two decades. But, at the age of forty-five, return I did.

Eric Flint

#10. It's like, once you've seen Tom Hanks win the Golden Globes, the Oscars, you've seen his wife, what kind of car he drives, when you watch his movies, you can't fully get really lost in them.

Justin Theroux

#11. The whole object of my life has been to inculcate into Cornish people a sense of their Cornishness.

Henry Jenner

#12. The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.

Diego Maradona

#13. There is no easy way out!
There is no shortcut home!

Robert Tepper