Quotes About Second Half Of Life

#1. Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter.

Richard Rohr

#2. As the child once fantasized that its wishes governed the world, and the youth fantasized that heroism could manage to do it all, so the person in the second half of life is obliged to come to a more sober wisdom based on a humbled sense of personal limitations and the inscrutability of the world.

James Hollis

#3. Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Carl Jung

#4. Pope John XXIII's motto might be heard here: "In essentials unity, in nonessentials liberty, and in all things, charity." That is second-half-of-life, hardwon wisdom.

Richard Rohr

#5. The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.

Carl Jung

#6. I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

Carl Jung

#7. 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

#8. Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation for growth. Those who have fallen, failed or 'gone down' are the only ones who understand 'up.'

Richard Rohr

#9. The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs.
(on being 36 yrs old)

C. G. Jung

#10. In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.

Richard Rohr

#11. In the second half of life, we do not have strong and final opinions about everything, every event, or most people, as much as we allow things and people to delight us, sadden us, and truly influence us.

Richard Rohr

#12. Have you ever noticed how many men in the Bible failed in the second half of life? Our enemy is so cunning that he will wait forty or even fifty years to set a trap.

Joseph C. Aldrich

#13. Those who lack within themselves the means for living a blessed and happy life will find any age painful.
- How to grow old: ancient wisdom for the second half of life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#14. For is it not possible that middle age can be looked upon as a period of second flowering, second growth, even a kind of second adolescence? It is true that society in general does not help one accept this interpretation of the second half of life.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#15. 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

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

Richard Rohr

#17. If you could fly backwards into the past at the rate of one year per second, it would take you about half an hour to reach the time of Christ, and a little over three weeks to get back to the beginnings of human life. But it would take you twenty years to reach the dawn of the Cambrian period.

Bill Bryson

#18. The time necessary for the disappearance of half the atoms, called the half-life, is a fundamental characteristic of each radio-element; according to the substance, the value of the half-life varies between a fraction of a second and millions of years.

Irene Joliot-Curie

#19. Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two.

Roy H. Williams

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

Saul Bellow

#21. Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#22. I'd always assumed that by 40 I'd have at least a modicum of stability - a steady income, an established career, a bountiful fullness, like a pillow into which I could sink as I entered the second half of my life.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

#23. I began the second half of my life by making coffee.

Graeme Simsion

#24. 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

#25. It's amazing to see the beauty of the world. It's so beautiful and so brutal. It's a reminder that every second of life is precious.

Sally Green

#26. There is no need to feel defeated at 40, 50 or 60. I'm having the greatest time in the second half of my life.

Kim Cattrall

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

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

Richard Rohr

#31. Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and it's sucked every second so far, it probably isn't going to get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early.

Doug Stanhope

#32. 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

#33. I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.

Joseph Rotblat

#34. Life is all about practicing for heaven." p 101.

Richard Rohr

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

Isabel Allende

#36. It definitely puts a strain on family life - I miss them like mad. Being a working mother I've been juggling house and career from day one. I want to hold out for telly for the second half of the year.

Louise Jameson

#37. 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

#38. The transition's of life's second half offer a special kind of opportunity to break with the social conditioning and do something really new and different.

William Bridges

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

Pablo Picasso

#40. I thought I wasn't attractive or talented anymore. I cried easily and was depressed and removed. I became emotionally insecure about what the second half of my life would bring. I was angry, scared, frightened and lonely.

Marsha Mason

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

Mark Twain

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. I had prepared myself for the second half of my life [to be] filled with other passions that don't include being in front of the camera. And then all of a sudden I got more work and more work and more work. And I went, "Well maybe things have shifted." And I think they have.

Sandra Bullock

#45. Instead of facing a crisis as I approached middle age, I discovered that a new and better life lay before me. I called the process of discovery 'halftime,' and the outcome led to my second half.

Bob Buford