Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

Many mothers and daughters are as close as any two people can be, but closeness always carries with it the need - indeed, the desire - to consider how your actions will affect the other person, and this can make you feel that you are no longer in control of your own life. ”

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations. ”

The meanings of words and the uses of words come from practice from the way people in a given culture use those words. ”

Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost! ”

I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions. ”

What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragic deeds of war? Is it not enough that I here leave it even to unexperience to fancy the hardships, the anxieties, the dangers, even of the best life of a soldier? ”

I've been blessed with so many wonderful women friends throughout my life. ”

The scripture is God's plan on how we are to live our lives here and what we are to do to have eternal life. ”

I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that. ”

What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in your life, quantifiable benefits happen. ”