More than half of my life is past; I have left only the time I need for turning the rest of it to account and for effacing my errors by my virtues.

I have lived half of my life in Paris, not the half the made me but the half in which I made what I made.

Half of life is fucking up, the other half is dealing with it.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?

I am this month one whole year older than I was this time twelve-month; and having got, as you perceive, almost into the middle of my fourth volume — and no farther than to my first day's life — 'tis demonstrative that I have three hundred and sixty-four days more life to write just now, than when I first set out; so that instead of advancing, as a common writer, in my work with what I have been doing at it — on the contrary, I am just thrown so many volumes back —

A good half of the art of living is resilience.

We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.