Midlife Quotes - Page 2

• If you live your life all out today, not only is it fun, but you are preventing a midlife crisis.

  Daphne Oz

  Fun, Live Your Life, Today

  Interview with Rachel Goldstien, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There is some debate in professional circles about whether the so-called “midlife crisis” exists.

  James Hollis

  Circles, Debate, Crisis

  James Hollis (2005). “Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up”, p.29, Penguin

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• 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.

  Jill Lepore

  Senior, Moving, Age

  "Baby Talk" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. June 29, 2009.

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• Men are much simpler mechanisms than women. Nothing changes them ...even when they have a midlife crisis, they do it in a mindless way... that's why I think we should let men go off and have affairs and drive fast cars and dream of being virile - and we should run the world.

  Goldie Hawn

  Dream, Running, Men

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'd say imagine that you wake up one morning when you're going through a midlife crisis. You're getting divorced. Your kids won't speak to you. Their faces are covered with acne, and you have to decide why you should get out of bed. That's the career you should pick. The one that keeps you going no matter what, even if your life is falling apart. That's how I feel about my career.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Morning, Fall, Kids

  "Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The “The African Americans” Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com. October 15, 2013.

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• I've been having a midlife crisis since I was four years old.

  Moby

  Years, Four, Crisis

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• The midlife crisis you're having at 30 is indulgent, but the midlife crisis you have at 45 is to an extent thrust upon you.

  Moby

  Crisis, Midlife Crisis, Thrust

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• Mindfulness is the key to everything, and this is especially true when one approaches the cultural portal known as "middle age." This is when people mindlessly believe that it's normal to get diseases and start to fall apart. But the truth is that midlife is the time when people need to wake up and be far more mindful about their everyday habits and thinking patterns.

  Christiane Northrup

  Fall, Believe, Thinking

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• I found myself thinking a lot about my own spirituality. What it means to be Jewish, what it means to forgive, what it means to sacrifice, but mostly what it means to be alive, how to be a better person, how not to make the mistakes my parents had made. I guess that's what one might typically call a midlife crisis.

  Tod Goldberg

  Mistake, Mean, Sacrifice

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Marianne Williamson

  Including, Ifs

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I don't believe the United States is going through a midlife crisis. The United States is going through an adolescent crisis.

  Marianne Williamson

  Believe, United States, Crisis

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Midlife crisis begins sometime in your 40s, when you look at your life and think, 'Is this all?' And it ends about 10 years later, when you look at your life again and think, 'Actually, this is pretty good.'

  Donald Richie

  Thinking, Years, Looks

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• Some people in Hollywood think of me as a model for dramatic midlife transitions: suburban housewife to Emmy-winning actress. But I never plotted out a master plan for following my dreams.

  Kathryn Joosten

  Dream, Winning, Thinking

  "Kathryn Joosten obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2012.

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• Ever heard of the phrase 'midlife crisis'?

  Janet Maslin

  Phrases, Crisis, Heard

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• 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.

  Richard Rohr

  Differences, Issues

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• Greatness is never appreciated in youth, called pride in midlife, dismissed in old age, and reconsidered in death. Because we cannot tolerate greatness in our midst, we do all we can do destroy it.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Appreciation, Pride, Greatness

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• I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It's like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW.

  Brad Meltzer

  Moving, Yoga, Two

  "Workouts inspire novelist: 'No better place to plot the death of a character'". Interview with David Raterman, www.sun-sentinel.com. February 11, 2013.

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• Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former self turns into gold-is one of the highest callings of life. Pain can burn you up and destroy you, or burn you up and redeem you. It can deliver you to an entrenched despair, or deliver you to your higher self. At midlife we decide, consciously or unconsciously, the path of the victim or the path of the phoenix when it is rising up at last.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Self, Phoenix

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.74, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Just as a father feels it is all ending and his children are off to start their own families, a new role begins. In midlife, Dad may experience his second "fatherhood" as a grandparent.

  Alvin Francis Poussaint

  Dad, Children, Father

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• Havin lunch and debatin Ferrari prices. 23 and goin through a midlife crisis.

  Drake

  Life, Humble, Lunch

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• My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, Careers, People

  "Lucky me" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2009.

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• I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.

  Bill Murray

  Thinking, Careers, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.

  Jane Fonda

  Perfect, Childhood, Trying

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• The Hollywood Foreign Press have just given me a time out from my 20-year midlife crisis. My heartfelt thanks to them.

  Colin Firth

  Years, Heartfelt, Hollywood

  "George Clooney film Up In The Air leads Golden Globes". news.bbc.co.uk. December 15, 2009.

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• People who aren't addicts want to know why I became one. They ask whether I had a midlife crisis. I'm only speaking for myself now, but I've stopped asking why and how. It's all about surrender and acceptance. It doesn't matter why I am an addict.

  Kevin Sessums

  Acceptance, Asking Why, People

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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