Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
George WashingtonTags: retirement
The goal of retirement is to live off your assets-not on them
Frank EberhartTags: success retirement finance income
Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.
Charles BaxterTags: retirement
A man approaching retirement called the retirement office to inquire about his pension. Afterward, he was asked if his wife worked. “She’s worked all her life making me happy”, he replied. “Yes sir, but has she earned money to receive her pension?” “When we got married we agreed on an arrangement”, he said. “I would earn the living, and she would make the living worthwhile”.
“Make the living worthwhile”…have we forgotten the very essence of that? Have we forgotten to live for someone else, that doing so IS what makes a living worthwhile?
Tags: life marriage living retirement
I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business.
The day you die.
Tags: writing novels retirement
(The subjects of What Should I Do With The Rest Of My Life) "have convinced me that past failing can as easily prove preparatory as predictive. Age does not of itself limit on enable us. The choice is ours.
Bruce FrankelTags: motivational inspirational creativity retirement reinvention successful-aging
This rough magic
I here abjure, and, when I have required
Some heavenly music, which even now I do,
To work mine end upon their senses that
This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And deeper than did ever plummet sound
I'll drown my book.
Tags: magic retirement swan-song
I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.
Lawrence FerlinghettiTags: paraphrased writers retirement
You get old faster when you think about retirement.
Toba BetaTags: retirement get-old-fast
He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
Albert CamusTags: greatness time idleness retirement
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