"Why are we so obsessed with what we lose as we age and unclear about what we gain?" 

~ Victor Frankl

"The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order ... the continuous thread of revelation." 

~ Eudora Welty

"That which youth found and had to find outside of itself, in the second half of life must be found within." 

~ C.J. Jung

"Retirement as we have known it, is in the midst of being displaced as the central institution in the second half of life."  

~ Marc Freedman

"It is never too late to become what you might have been." 

~ George Eliot

"Age is strictly a case of mind over matter.  If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."  

~ Mark Twain

"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."

~ Soren Kierkegaard

 

"What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death."

- Dave Barry

"It's not the arrival, it is the journey that matters."

~ Montaigne