Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice. ”

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life. ”

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art. ”

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? ”

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large. ”

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ”

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink. ”

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. ”

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius. ”

I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind. ”