The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've lived the life of a 35-year-old since I was 18.
Being middle-aged is about realising that you've lived most of your life. You don't have as much time in front of you as you have behind you.
Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.
As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever.
From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination. A man may feel as old as his years yet as young as his dreams.
I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd.
Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn't just spring to life at age thirty.
I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn't think of many adult ones. I finally realized that we don't have many dreams for adults because, historically, people have always died much younger than they do today.
We've got to understand that the ages of zero to three are the most formative years of a person's life, the time they learn the concept of reward and punishment and develop a conscience, and that 50 percent of all learned human response is learned in the first year of life.
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
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