Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. ”

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. ”

Civilization must be based on life. We should never forget that human life was created in and for millions of centuries, was nourished by primitive wildness. We cannot separate ourselves from this ancestral background. ”

I've had enough publicity for 15 lives. ”

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. ”

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life? ”

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn. ”

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it. ”

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life. ”

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up. ”