Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them. ”

My sister was brilliant: she was in the 25 top math students in the country. When she finished college, I said, 'Spend a couple of months here in Europe. You'll get another take on life.' She never came - married some schmuck who made clothes for fat women on Seventh Avenue. ”

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions. ”

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it. ”

You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply. ”

I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is much less fatiguing than riding on horseback, and even with the little practice I have yet had, I find it shakes me less. ”

To the poet, his travels, his adventures, his loves, his indignations are finally resolved in verse, and this, in the end becomes his permanent, indestructible life. ”

Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories. ”

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. ”

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain. ”