Gordon Lightfoot Quotes

I never thought that I would have love again, but it's amazing how the universe brings love to you.

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.

I will definitely give myself a second chance. Either arranged or love, I will definitely marry again.

When everything in life gets so complicated it only takes a day to change it

It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn't see coming and may have wandered down by mistake. The older we get the more willing we are to follow those, to surprise ourselves.

There is no such thing as 'too late' in life.

It can be hard to feel like you have to start from scratch when you have invested so much time with a person, but shortly after my break up I realized something: I wasn't losing the chance to have love - I was getting the opportunity to do it all over again.

Anyway, I want to remember that love can happen. Because there is life after not having a life. I never expected love to happen. What was I expecting from life, then?

I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.

I went through a change in my life and my career where I finally understood how to train and prepare. I finally understood what it meant, and I've had so many fantasies about being able to go back and be 16 again. And redo parts of my high school career. Redo all of my college career. Redo my attempt to make an Olympic team.

It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.

The great thing about starting golf in your forties is that you can start golf in your forties. You can start other things in your forties but generally your wife makes you stop them, as Bill Clinton found out.

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.

One never knows what life may have in store for us, and it's always good to know where the emergency exit is.

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.

There is no person alive who cannot make a new beginning.

Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it...If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Life is amazing, life is odd. Life is not what you expected it to be. Things happen... Growing up takes longer than you think.

We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.

God picks us up where we are, not where we should have been

Sometimes God picks you up and tells you, "You've been messing around now. You're going to have to stop this, stop that, but I'll give you another chance." And you wonder why you're given another chance. It must be for something; it must be to celebrate life.

I don't go to bars and stuff like I used to, but I live each day to make something.

I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.