Bed Quote by Regina Brett

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

— Regina Brett

Life begins at 40. I could attempt writing. Life is taking me into different directions.

— Pooja Bhatt

When I was about to turn 50, I went into a kind of personal revision and observed my own priorities and what led those…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don't give up.

— Diana Nyad

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

— Jane Fonda

Those lessons that I got along the way are the ones that have shaped my life for the last 20 years.

— John Sculley

At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand.

— Confucius

I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my own state…

— Anne Lamott

The best thing about being 45 is not taking myself so seriously. Do I miss the package I came in at 25? I do.…

— Jen Lancaster

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

— Georges Clemenceau

Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

— Maya Angelou