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Idowu Koyenikan
“The more your money works for you, the less you have to work for money.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

Yasunari Kawabata
“I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business.

The day you die.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness

Albert Camus
“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.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

Derek Landy
“But I'm really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake.”
― Derek Landy, Mortal Coil

William Shakespeare
“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.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“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?”
― Kelly Crawford

Toba Beta
“You get old faster when you think about retirement.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“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.”
― Martha Sherrill

Gregory Maguire
“It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.”
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

Dejan Stojanovic
“He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

Charles Baxter
“Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.”
― Charles Baxter, The Feast of Love

George Washington
“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, George Washington's Farewell Address

“The goal of retirement is to live off your assets-not on them”
― Frank Eberhart

Mark Singer
“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.”
― Mark Singer, The Changing Landscape Of Retirement - What You Don't Know Could Hurt You

Donna Tartt
“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.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

Mark Singer
“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.”
― Mark Singer, The Changing Landscape Of Retirement - What You Don't Know Could Hurt You

Bruce Frankel
“(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.”
― Bruce Frankel

Mark Singer
“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.”
― Mark Singer, The Changing Landscape Of Retirement - What You Don't Know Could Hurt You

Mickey Mantle
“I never knew how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world. But now I understand.”
― Mickey Mantle

Manuel Vilas
“I'm afraid of old people. They are what I will one day be.”
― Manuel Vilas, Ordesa

“The recommended
retirement plan is arabesque, then leap
and smash on the seawall.”
― Natalie Shapero

“Someone remarks somewhere that 'A man works one-half of his life in order that he may rest the other.' I wonder if those who are successful ever appreciate their rest when they get it! I wonder if it comes up to their expectations! If the goal towards which they have been looking almost since they began to exist is worth the trouble and energy spent on it! Ah, I am afraid they very rarely find it so! They have become so immured in their busy lives that it is difficult to grow accustomed to any other. Unless one is brought up to it, the Dolce far niente is not an existence we enjoy.”
― Jenny Wren, Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl

“Retirement isn’t the end — it’s the permission slip to live softly, boldly, and entirely for yourself.
Take Ubers just because. Travel first class. Buy the sneakers you once talked yourself out of.
Glow on purpose. Chase butterflies. Stop wearing a watch.
Learn something new. Ride a bus across states and write your own story.
After all these years, freedom finally belongs to you.”
― Charmaine J. Forde

“Sleep hits different in retirement — it finally feels like rest, not recovery.”
― Charmaine J. Forde

“The idea of leaving a warm, cozy bed to face long commutes, stressful environments, and daily demands makes retirement feel even more precious”
― Charmaine J Forde

Randall S. Oke
“Randyizm: Retirement doesn’t empty your calendar. It just fills it with things you actually want to show up for.”
― Randall S. Oke, I Retired, Now What the F*** Do I Do?: A Straight-Talking Look at Life After Work

Michael Marshall
“He had known the city once, known it from inside. He had walked the streets as one to whom the residents turned in times of chaos. A part of the immune system. Now he lived without the sanction. He was no longer identified, was without fame or it's equivalent and function. He was just a man on the street in a city where very few people walk-- and where those who did regarding him with caution.”
― Michael Marshall, The Straw Men

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