Life Stages Quotes

“I am merely at the midway point in the novel of my own life. On around page 250 of a 500-page tale and, given future medical advances, maybe even 200. There’s no reason why the next 250, 300, or even 350 pages will not be far more exciting than the first half.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

“You can lose a lot when you travel too much.”
― Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

“A butterfly does not return to a caterpillar after it is mature. We must learn to grow and evolve into a stronger, wiser and better version of ourselves. Life occurs in stages and taking a step at a time is key to learning and growing.”
― Kemi Sogunle

“Primed to expect that our lives will follow a predictable path, we’re thrown when they don’t. We have linear expectations but nonlinear realities... We’re all comparing ourselves to an ideal that no longer exists and beating ourselves up for not achieving it.”
― Bruce Feiler, Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age

“A transition period is a period between two transition periods.”
― George Stigler

“People undergo several sequential steps in maturing from infancy including childhood, adolescences, young adulthood, middle age, and old age. Each stage presents distinct challenges that require a person to amend how they think and act. The motive for seeking significant change in a person’s manner of perceiving the world and behaving vary. Alteration of person’s mindset can commence with a growing sense of awareness that a person is dissatisfied with an aspect of his or her life, which cause a person consciously to consider amending their lifestyle.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“[THE DAILY BREATH]

There are three important periods in your life.

When you enter your twenties, you chase a career that other people suggested, recommended, or imposed on you. You are doing other people's purpose.

When you finish your twenties, frustration and depression - sometimes illnesses - begin to set in because you feel you have no purpose in life. If you find the courage to break the bondage, you go to find your purpose. You discover your passion and follow your dreams for a while. You feel bliss because you feel you have found freedom. You are doing your purpose.

And one day, God touches your heart and you put all your dreams at His feet. When you lift your hands and say: "Jesus, I am yours. Everything I am, use all of me," you begin to do God's purpose for you. You are finally free.”
― Dragos Bratasanu

“Reflecting on various aspects of our lives is essential for a person to grow and adjust to changing phases in their life. Self-analysis entails examining a person’s existing level of self-esteem and documenting the inner voice that speaks to a person, which is frequently either affirming of self-defeating. Failure to periodically engage in self-analysis, make crucial revisions in our personas, and modify our thinking patterns when we encounter transformative events in life can lead to mood disorders, burnout, and other emotional maladies.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Despite the personalization of life’s events, all people largely experience the same general transformative stages of life and eventually we all encounter a row of similar tragedies. We do not experience identical lives or exemplify replicable personalities. Every person is a receptacle whom is capable of experiencing the full gamut of the entire human condition. Our lives act as a period of apprenticeship, which we devote laboring to discover the truths that we can live by.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“I just wasn’t the same person at thirty that I was at twenty,” he said. “And neither was she.”
“I don’t think anybody is,” I said.
“I feel a bit jaded by it now, to be honest,” he said. “Like, will I be the same person at forty? Or...”
“Will we outgrow this, too?” I said, completing his thought.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“Natural, parcursul în viață este determinat de trei etape majore: etapa de învățare din tinerețe, urmată de perioada aplicării învățăturilor dobândite în etapa anterioară și ultima etapă, determinată de îndreptățirea la privilegii și facilități materiale.”
― Andrei Cristian, Epoca îndreptățirii

“Life is in stages.
There is a stage where, like grasshoppers, we hop from grass to grass.
And another, where we move from grass to grace.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“You need a name for every stage of your life. Butterflies don’t go by ‘caterpillar’ forever.And they certainly don’t go by ‘pupa’ one second longer than they have to. You, my dear, are no longer a pupa.”
― Sasha Martin, Life from Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness

“Gravel and road dust mark
my very taught torso.
Marks that have worn away
at my stressed skin over time.
The road tattoos are symbols
of stages of my life faced solo.

[Road Block]”
― Susan L. Marshall, Bare Spirit: The Selected Poems of Susan Marshall

“People undergo several sequential steps in maturing from infancy including childhood, adolescences, young adulthood, middle age, and old age. Each stage presents distinct challenges that require a person to amend how they think and act. The motive for seeking significant change in a person’s manner of perceiving the world and behaving vary. Alteration of person’s mindset can commence with a growing sense of awareness that a person is dissatisfied with an aspect of his or her life, which cause a person consciously to consider amending their lifestyle. The ego might resist change until a person’s level of discomfort becomes unbearable. A person can employ logic to overcome the ego’s defense mechanism and intentionally integrate needed revisions in a person’s obsolete or ineffective beliefs and behavior patterns. The subtle sense that something is amiss in a person’s life can lead to a gradual or quick alteration in a person’s conscious thoughts and outlook on life. Resisting change can prolong unhappiness whereas”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls