Starting Over at Forty
You are not late. You are simply carrying more evidence.
Starting over at twenty often looks brave because there is less to lose.
Starting over later can look frightening because you understand exactly what it costs.
That does not make you weaker. It means your courage is better informed.
You have already learned which doors are painted on walls, which promises expire, and which compromises become permanent if you keep renewing them.
Use the knowledge. Do not use it as an excuse to stay somewhere you have already outgrown.
— Vivienne