Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

Life moves forward, and you have to deal with whatever it throws at you. ”

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ”

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing. ”

I think dealing with mean girls is just a part of life. I never really took people like that too seriously. ”

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life. ”

When I look at my life and the lives of my female friends these days - with our dizzying number of opportunities and talents - I sometimes feel as though we are all mice in a giant experimental maze, scurrying around frantically, trying to find our way through. ”

Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have dedicated too much of my life to writing, and have therefore neglected other aspects of my being. ”

I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do for the rest of my life. ”

You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?' Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why you're so content. ”

I have these new policies toward my life, like 'I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.' ”