Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected. ”

I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail. ”

Nothing lasts in New York. The life that is lived there, however, is as intense as it gets. ”

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please. ”

The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.' ”

Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians. ”

Experience by itself is not science. ”

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go. ”

Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down. ”

The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life. ”