Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

Life is full of trade-offs. At different phrases in your life, you're able to do certain things that you can't do at other phases. And you make choices. ”

I finally said, 'I don't care if you're the first person in your family to be a lawyer.' Everybody thought what I was doing was really exciting, but it was not moving me one bit. And that's when I decided to join city government in Chicago, and that changed my life. ”

I felt sharing my experience may be of value or assistance in some way to others. ”

I really look at my life as blessed. ”

Keep your chin up, and don't go to the funeral - mine or yours or your loved one's - until the day of the funeral because then you miss the life that you have left. ”

I've had a lot of great stuff - spectacular stuff - happen to me. I've got to not be a pig about life. ”

Life is amazing; live it to the fullest. Stay as long as you can. ”

You have to look life in the face, doing what you can where you can. ”

Life does not owe me a shred. ”

Life has sweetness to it and a beauty and a power that I wanted to celebrate. ”