Quotes about Life stages
Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.
- Maya Angelou
Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.
- Maya Angelou
When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.
- Pablo Picasso
The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
- David Ogilvy
Basically, the first half of life is writing the text, and the second half is writing the commentary on that text.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
is actually undoing the fourth commandment of Moses, which tells us to "honor your father and mother"? This commandment is necessary for the first half of life, and, one hopes, it can be possible forever. As we move into the second half of life, however, we are very often at odds with our natural family and the "dominant consciousness" of our cultures.
- Fr. Richard Rohr