Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly. ”

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. ”

All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me. ”

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ”

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. ”

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. ”

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. ”

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. ”

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. ”

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. ”