Retirement affects everyone in different ways. I've known some people to meet it with excitment and others with dread. It seems the main advice in approaching retirment is to have a plan. Find what you want to do and go do it. Travel, write, create, play with your grandkids, etc... Remember, just because work is done, doesn't mean life is over.
If you're approaching retirement or know someone who is, enjoy the wisdom and humor from the Retirement Quotes below.
Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement. -Stephen Leacock
I've been attending lots of seminars in my retirement. They're called naps. -Merri Brownworth
Life begins at retirement. -unknown
Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left. -George F. Burns
Retirement can be a great joy if you can figure out how to spend time without spending money. -unknown
Retirement is wonderful if you have two essentials, much to live on and much to live for. -unknown
Retirement is when you stop living at work and begin working at living. -unknown
Retirement itself is the biggest gift. No gold watch could ever top it. -Abigail Charleson
The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before your boss does. -unknown
The company gave me an aptitude test and I found out the best work I was best suited for was retirement. -unknown
We have no porch, no rocking chair, and no time. My biggest need is a calendar because there are so many things to do. Now I encourage people to retire, the younger the better. -Maurice Musholt
The worst thing about retirement is having to drink coffee on your own time. -unknown wise person
Planning to retire? Before you do find your hidden passion, do the thing that you have always wanted to do. -Catherine Pulsifer
For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things. -John Sharp Williams
RETIREMENT: The time in your life when time is no longer money. -unknown
Retirement is the time when you never do all the things you intended to do when you were still working. -unknown
Retirement may be an ending, a closing, but it is also a new beginning. -Catherine Pulsifer
Stay busy [when you retire]. If you are going to sit on the couch and watch TV, you are going to die. -Bill Chavanne
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement. -Arthur E. Morgan
When is the right age to retire? When you dread going to work. -Mary Bright
Retirement, when every day is Saturday! -unknown
There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit, retire! -Groucho Marx
In retirement, I look for days off from my days off. -Mason Cooley
The only way to avoid being miserable [in retirement], is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. -George Bernard Shaw
We've put more effort into helping folks reach retirement age than into helping them enjoy it. -unknown
The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age. -Scott Bakula
Eating's going to be a whole new ball game. I may even have to buy a new pair of trousers. -Lester Piggott
Retirement gives you the opportunity to revisit your youth, think about the things you have not done and then begin to do them. -unknown
I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. -Douglas MacArthur
