“It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.”
“The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.”
“It must be true that the whole second half of a man's life is most often made up only of habits accumulated during the first half.”
“Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.”
“You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.”
“The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.”