Category: middle...

in middle age, both time perception and memory are reorganized
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life. (C. Jung)
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly bring us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. (EM Cioran)
Most safely shall you tread the middle path. (Ovid)
the Buddha taught what he referred to as "the Middle Way," a path that led to enlightenment by avoiding the extremes of sensory self-indulgence and self-mortification
a mediating path or compromise between extremes of action or policy
going to the edge rather than staying stuck in the middle, reaching out rather than holding in