Quotes about Midlife

the struggle of midlife is fundamentally rooted in the idolatries of the heart.

The grief of midlife is not simply that we all collect things to regret, that we all fear getting old, or that we all mourn the demise of our dreams. We mourn the fact that midlife exposes our idols' fundamental inability to deliver.

At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore.

The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person.

Midlife is about surrendering things that no longer matter, not because our lives are in decline, but because they're on an incline

Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force.

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)

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.

If you allow yourself to deepen with midlife, your experience of everything deepens, including your experience of God.