Turning 50 Quotes

I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it

Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows.

When I turned 50, I said to myself, well, if this is what it's like turning 50, I can't wait to turn 60 because I still felt very, very mentally and physically good, outside my back surgery.

My career was about to change radically, in turning 50 I had hit the age where my Dad made a big career and his life started to unravel.

We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.

Turning 50 can be difficult, sometimes dangerous, for women. The danger is in that blip that can come from the fact that you become invisible, and if you're not careful and don't embrace that, it can trip you up and you lose confidence.

One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Only a few things are really important.

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Turning 50 changed me and I'm far more accepting of myself. I'm not thin, but I am a size 10. I go in at the middle and very much out at the bottom and top. And now I think, 'Well, that's how I am.

I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the lake on our property in the Catskills, and that night, skinny-dipping under the stars. Just being free and joyful. And that's how I [felt] about turning 50.

Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

50 years: here's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing what you love, then what's the point?

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

There's nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.