Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. ”

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. ”

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life. ”

What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other beasts. In the process, we discover our shared identity. ”

Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about. ”

I never edited a photo of myself in my life. I don't have the energy. ”

Like everyone in high school, like everyone in life, we all have this outer layer we put up to protect ourselves. ”

I just want to do roles that are going to change one person's life. ”

I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life. ”

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches,' but in fact, the Rosses were never raggedy. ”