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Forget the midlife crisis," I say. "It's all about the sixth-life crisis.
Midlife: when the Universe grabs your shoulders and tells you I'm not f-ing around, use the gifts you were given.
I can feel middle age approaching, but I reckon the trick is to ignore all the signs. I'm lucky in that I've always looked half the age I am. So the way I see it is that I'm still in my twenties!
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
Feeling young and old at the same time is the present."
From FIFTY IS THE NEW FIFTY: 10 Life Lessons for Women in Second Adulthood
Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.
Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.
When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.
There are three stages of life: youth, maturity, and 'My, you're looking good!'
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.
I think middle age begins once you start looking forward to eating dinner before six thirty, or when you call the cops when your next-door neighbor has a party.
At midlife, you're pregnant with the best self you can be - someone who has learned enough from both successes and failures to add up to a fine human being.
Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.
Women do well in their thirties. They put their bags down and say, 'This is who I am - like it or lump it.' There is a more relaxed quality, which I like.
Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. You can sell a lot of junk to a lot of people by inventing a stage of life and giving it a name.
Being in your mid-thirties brought benefits, I reminded myself. You began to appreciate tidiness, smallness, things in their place. This is the shape your life has taken, I said. Be existential. Go to sleep.
Middle Age, a restful, welcome break from real life, brings some unique opportunities.
Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.
Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.
In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
The problem in middle life, when the body has reached its climax of power and begins to decline, is to identify yourself not with the body, which is falling away, but with the consciousness of which it is a vehicle. This is something I learned from myths.
My forties are the best time I have ever gone through.
Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great.
Being middle-aged is about realising that you've lived most of your life. You don't have as much time in front of you as you have behind you.
Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.
Midlife crisis, it turns out, is much less about a loss of flesh and far more about a loss of innocence, the stripping-away of the illusion of choice and order.
Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.
Middle age is such a low point for well-being; it's at the bottom of a U-shaped curve that shows greater happiness among the younger and older people.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.
When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid.
Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired.
See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.
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)
Life doesn't begin at forty, it begins when you are no longer afraid to live it.
In your mid-20s, you think you'll go on for eternity. Then a point comes where you realise that's not going to be the case.
I'm realizing that for so much of my life I had an older viewpoint; I saw things as an older person. That's common among change-of-life babies. So I have this dichotomy where I'm either, like, super young or feel like I'm coming to the end of my years.
At midlife, I think a woman has more in common with her teenage children than anybody else. We all are kind of uncertain. We realize for the first time in either our lives or decades that we're in charge now.
Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.
Middle -age is the time of life, that a man first notices - in his wife.
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
When, as the researchers put it, "life's fragility is primed," people's goals and motives in their everyday lives shift completely. It's perspective, not age, that matters most. Tolstoy
As I approach mid-life, I feel like the old boot that lands on Mayfair after an eight-hour game of Monopoly.
As any of us approaches middle age, we inevitably come up against our limitations: the realization that certain dearly-held fantasies may not be realized; that circumstances have thwarted us; that even with intention and will we may not be able to set our ship back on the course we'd planned.
You look like you're having a midlife crisis."
"It's not a midlife crisis. It's just a life crisis.
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'
Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it's a funny thing, but I'm an exception to that rule.'
If you live your life all out today, not only is it fun, but you are preventing a midlife crisis.
During my completely soul-shredding midlife crisis at the age of twenty-eight, I felt sure I had peaked too soon.
Middle age is when you get in the car and immediately change the radio station.
I was having my teens in my 30s.
I think there's something that happens at 40 where you settle into your own skin and you stop caring what people think - you realize life is a gift from God and you want to live it to the fullest.
There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and 'how well you look'.
When you are in your twenties, if even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and of what you in life are, and might become.
When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.
One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely ended by the time I was twenty-five.
One is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feeble, and by one's passions, which seem such a bore - all but the consuming desire for knowledge and understanding. That grows. - Aldous Huxley
In their 30s women really start to live ... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.
Middle age is not the beginning of decline, but a time to reach for the highest in our selves. Middle age is a pause to re-examine what we have done and what we will do in the future. This is the time to give birth to our power.
Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.
Life begins at age forty.
Life doesn't end at 30.
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of the time your mind was somewhere else. By the time you got to seventy, it was probably like watching snooker on the telly.
Life begins at 40, and I'm living proof.
Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.
It was only in my forties that I started feeling young.
When I turned 30, I knew my life was at a crossroads. It was either over, or I was going to restart.
The time passes so quickly during these full and active middle years that most people arrive at the end of middle age and the beginning of later maturity with surprise and a sense of having finished the journey while they were still preparing to commence it.
It is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.
You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.
Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years.
I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.
Might be a quarter life crisis, just disturbin' in my soul.
I'm forty-two years old - which is a lot more like middle age than forty or even forty-one.
It wasn't until I turned thirty that I started to feel like my adult life was beginning.
Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got down to work. Today's generational battle obscures the fact that adulthood is happening later. A new transitional stage has emerged after adolescence: the twenties.
I'm 81 and I'm in the prime of my life.
I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd.
Every stage of life have its own challenges.
Every stage of life has its own challenges.
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
Every age has its happiness and troubles.
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.
I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
First you are young, then you are middle aged; then you are old; then you are wonderful." Lady Diana Cooper
At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].
When you're in your twenties, someone once wrote, you live to please other people. When you're in your thirties, you get tired of trying to please others, so you get miffed with them for making you worry about it. When you're in your forties, you realize nobody was thinking about you anyway.
The three true ages of man are youth, middle age, and how the fuck did I get old so soon?
Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
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.
There comes a time in one's life, perhaps in middle age, when we stop and assess who we are, and the life we have.
Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.
As my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs and smooth-talking men. She may be right.
If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.
The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.
The first 50 years are for learning, and the second 50 years are for living. Life just begins when you're in your 50s.