George Herbert Quotes

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.

At 30 I was not quiet enough inside myself. At 40 I was not rich enough. At 50 I was still hoping to change the world.

I have turned 25, come into my own and focused on improving at day-to-day level.

I think turning 30 - and same with turning 21, 25, or turning 18 - those are moments in life where something new is expected of you, or you expect something new from yourself.

Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of life. For a young person it is almost a sin and certainly a danger to be too much occupied with himself; but for the aging person it is a duty and a necessity to give serious attention to himself.

I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead.

Everybody complains about getting older, but I find it such a rich time of life. There are negative things about it, I suppose, but more than that, I'm finding it to be a very positive experience in which growth suggests itself in a much more alluring way than it did when I was young - isn't that funny?

I feel it is important to remember who you are if you want to make it in life - and I try not to forget that fact even for a moment.

I want to be a woman who has a little bit more figured out, who doesn't have so many doubts.

I find myself a bit boring because I somehow always wanted to be MSF.

I do think about them things, life after football. What type of person I want to be.

In terms of experience, I am a much more evolved person than I was at my peak as a star.

I'm 33 years old; I'm getting old. Every year is different, and as an athlete, you've got to be honest with yourself.

I feel like 2013 was one giant snowball of me being confused with my place in life and within the group. A lot of it was self-confidence issues, a lot of outside issues, and a lot of me questioning the future of what I was doing. And my mistake was letting all that influence me so that I wasn't the best I could be in life!

I'm getting older. That's realistic. I can't reverse time. I can slow it down a little bit.

I love philosophy and spirituality and leveling-up books and science books.

Getting older, getting married, buying a house, becoming a different person... I had to figure out what my new motivations, inspirations, and goals were.

You know what, being in my 30s is so much better than my 20s.