Turning 50 is no small accomplishment.  Although it may be harder to embrace for some, there is much cause to celebrate!  A lot of tremendous things have happened in the the last 50 years.  We’ve put together some of our favorite birthday quotes for the nifty fifties – be sure to add one to your 50th birthday invitations.

“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.”
- T.S. Eliot

“Looking fifty is great–if you’re sixty.”
- Joan Rivers   

“At age 50, everyone has the face he deserves.”
- George Orwell

“The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”
- Muhammad Ali

“You take all of the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn’t be enough left to run it.”
- Henry Ford

“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?”
- Jim Carrey

“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.”
- Agatha Christie

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