Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. ”

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. ”

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. ”

To spend life for something which outlasts it. ”

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives. ”

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it. ”

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. ”

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. ”

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise. ”

There's so much control of the audience's experience when you're on stage doing a play, whereas when working on camera, there's a lot of people that have to do a lot of things exactly right for anything that I do to matter at all. ”