Quotes About Second half

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.

Courthouses are good and necessary first half of life institutes. In the second half, you try instead to influence events, work for change, quietly persuade, change your own attitude, pray or forgive instead of taking things to court.

We must discover a source of inner security before we can withstand the insecurities that every life holds. Children are not ready for this, nor are teenagers, nor are young adults. Honest soul work is usually done in the second half of life, although it is forced on some much earlier through imprisonment or family tragedy.

The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.

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.

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 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.

For Birmingham, I scored four on my debut. It's not bad. First one was a tap-in; it set me up nice for the day, and I think I got a hat-trick in 13 minutes. So obviously I was cruising, then got one in the second half and came off!

I want our party to step up its efforts to reflect and champion the concerns of everybody who has reached the second half of their lives.

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.

work for you in the second half; they positively work against you. The Franciscan friar Richard Rohr put it to me like this: "It's our strengths rather than our weaknesses that often hold us back.

Hayes particularly recommends the experience to people in middle age for whom, as Carl Jung suggested, experience of the numinous can help them negotiate the second half of their lives. Hayes added, "I would not recommend it to young people.

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

Contours on the second half of a long putt have more impact on how the ball rolls because it's going slower. Adjust your speed if that last part is playing uphill or downhill. Don't get fooled by an early slope or break.

As we took the court for the second half, I made a secret now to myself that I would never listen to a single thing that Mel Thompson said to me again. I would obey him and honor him and follow him, but I would not let him touch the core of me again. He was my coach, but I was my master.

Yes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but everyone forgets the second half of that quote: the road to heaven is paved with good actions.