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“The more your money works for you, the less you have to work for money.”
― Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
― Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
“He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.”
― A Happy Death
― A Happy Death
“But I'm really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake.”
― Mortal Coil
― Mortal Coil
“This rough magic
I here abjure, and, when I have required
Some heavenly music, which even now I do,
To work mine end upon their senses that
This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And deeper than did ever plummet sound
I'll drown my book.”
― The Tempest
I here abjure, and, when I have required
Some heavenly music, which even now I do,
To work mine end upon their senses that
This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And deeper than did ever plummet sound
I'll drown my book.”
― The Tempest
“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”
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“A man approaching retirement called the retirement office to inquire about his pension. Afterward, he was asked if his wife worked. “She’s worked all her life making me happy”, he replied. “Yes sir, but has she earned money to receive her pension?” “When we got married we agreed on an arrangement”, he said. “I would earn the living, and she would make the living worthwhile”.
“Make the living worthwhile”…have we forgotten the very essence of that? Have we forgotten to live for someone else, that doing so IS what makes a living worthwhile?”
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“Make the living worthwhile”…have we forgotten the very essence of that? Have we forgotten to live for someone else, that doing so IS what makes a living worthwhile?”
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“Mentoring is: Sharing Life's Experiences and God's Faithfulness”
― Dear God, He's Home!: A Woman's Guide to Her Stay-at-Home Man
― Dear God, He's Home!: A Woman's Guide to Her Stay-at-Home Man
“I often think about dogs when I think about work and retirement. There are many breeds of dog that just need to be working, and useful, or have a job of some kind, in order to be happy. Otherwise they are neurotically barking, scratching, or tearing up the sofa. A working dog needs to work. And I am a working dog.”
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“Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.”
― George Washington's Farewell Address
― George Washington's Farewell Address
“I believe that the biggest mistake that most people make when it comes to their retirement is they do not plan for it. They take the same route as Alice in the story from “Alice in Wonderland,” in which the cat tells Alice that surely she will get somewhere as long as she walks long enough. It may not be exactly where you wanted to get to, but you certainly get somewhere.”
― The Changing Landscape Of Retirement - What You Don't Know Could Hurt You
― The Changing Landscape Of Retirement - What You Don't Know Could Hurt You
“Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home. It was better never to have been born-never to have wanted anything, never to have hoped for anything.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“People ask me, "What’s it feel like, knowing your work will outlive you?" I say—imagine raising a kid. You feed it, teach it, protect it. Give it your best years. One day it grows up, builds a tech startup, and blocks your number.”
― Noetic Gravity
― Noetic Gravity
“I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us.”
― The Changing Landscape Of Retirement - What You Don't Know Could Hurt You
― The Changing Landscape Of Retirement - What You Don't Know Could Hurt You
“(The subjects of What Should I Do With The Rest Of My Life) "have convinced me that past failing can as easily prove preparatory as predictive. Age does not of itself limit on enable us. The choice is ours.”
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“Learn the lessons of history. Don't let how you feel about your tenure at your organization drive you to make poor investment decisions that could potentially derail a successful retirement.”
― The Changing Landscape Of Retirement - What You Don't Know Could Hurt You
― The Changing Landscape Of Retirement - What You Don't Know Could Hurt You
“How an individual or couple spends income is a better measure of well-being than the actual level of income at any point in time, according to research by Michael D. Hurd and Susan Rohwedder.”
― 12 Ways to Retire on Less: Planning an Affordable Future
― 12 Ways to Retire on Less: Planning an Affordable Future
“The key to enjoying retirement are realistic expectations and a careful analysis of your cost of living and the assets you have or are likely to have.”
― 12 Ways to Retire on Less: Planning an Affordable Future
― 12 Ways to Retire on Less: Planning an Affordable Future
“The only thing worse than a job you don't like is one that pays well enough and keep you stuck.”
― How to Live Off Dividends All Year: The Passive Income Playbook For Busy Professionals
― How to Live Off Dividends All Year: The Passive Income Playbook For Busy Professionals
“Others who continue looking for more meaningful activities and re-establish a new mission in their life after retirement, tend to stay mentally lucid even until their last breath.”
― Higher Science of Longevity
― Higher Science of Longevity
“It happened to me the year I retired. You reach a certain age, and it all kicks in: Social Security, Medicare, and a fondness for hydrangeas.”
― The Vulnerables
― The Vulnerables
“if you're married or have a partner make sure you collaborate with your partner”
― How to Retire: 20 Lessons For a Happy, Successful, and Wealthy Retirement
― How to Retire: 20 Lessons For a Happy, Successful, and Wealthy Retirement
“While Europe appears to maintain more reticence embracing it, in America there is no question that work can only be discussed as a secular sacrament, with all the indignity one might expect from such a degrading genus. The Protestant qualifier to Protestant work ethic long ago dissipated, leaving the peculiarly American artifact of viewing one’s wages as a moral reward, one’s continuous employment as a state of grace and one’s retirement as an earthly paradise merited by one’s good works.”
― The Invention of Work
― The Invention of Work
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