Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past. ”

The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities. ”

To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout. ”

After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs. ”

Our life is full of empty space. ”

The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick. ”

It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion. ”

And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive. ”

So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life. ”

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird. ”