Quotes & Sayings About Retirement And Friendship

We get back our met as we measure,
We cannot do wrong and feel right,
Or can we give pain, and gain pleasure . . .
And sometimes the things our life misses,
Helps more than the thing which it gets . . .

Alice Carey — G.G. Galt

The way to suffer well and be happy is to stay in touch with what is actually going on; in doing so, you will gain liberating insights into the true nature of suffering and of joy. NO — Thich Nhat Hanh

The idea that an afterlife had been invented to reassure people who couldn't face the finality of death was no more plausible than the idea that the finality of death had been invented to reassure people who couldn't face the nightmare of endless experience. — Edward St. Aubyn

No one is completely worthless, for they can always serve as a horrible example. LM — Lee McLaughlin

You ought to explore, search and seek the boundless possibilities in life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

He walked to the ocean and above him the moon disappeared, concealed by tattered rags of clouds, and for a few moments he could only hear the water, not see it, and the sky was thick and warm with moisture, as if the very air here were denser, more significant. Maybe this is what it is to be dead, he thought, and realized it wasn't so bad after all, and felt better. — Hanya Yanagihara

The researchers argued that an orderly environment fosters a sense of responsibility not so much by deterrence (since Groningen police rarely penalize litterers) as by the signaling of a social norm: This is the kind of place where people obey the rules. — Steven Pinker

After all, each human being - or so she believed then - had been born to love and to live with their beloved. — Paulo Coelho