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

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

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

Half my life is an act of revision.

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

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.

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

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

The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs.

(on being 36 yrs old)

If you want to become whole, let yourself be partial. If you want to become straight, let yourself be crooked. If you want to become full, let yourself be empty. If you want to be reborn, let yourself die. If you want to be given everything, give everything up.

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

Our egos are constructed in our formative years — our first two decades. They get constructed by our environment, our parents, society. Then, we spend the rest of our life trying to make our ego happy.

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.