"Like all of nature, I am the object of a slow process of decay… But I refuse to be its witness…"
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
"Work is love made visible."
Kahlil Gibran
"…the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rage at the close of day."
Dylan Thomas
"No one can avoid aging, but most can opt to age productively."
M. Krets de Vries
"The only happy people I know are those who are working well at something they consider important."
Abraham Maslow
“It’s better to wear out than rust out.”
Richard Cumberland
"Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did."
Malcolm Forbes
"If you rest, you rust."
Actress Helen Hayes
"No one grows old by living. On the contrary, people grow old by losing interest in living."
M. Krets de Vries
"The years teach much which the days never know."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Retirement is the ugliest word in the language."
Ernest Hemingway
"The true secret of living is to keep busy."
George Burns
"…the most important predictors of vital age are satisfying work and complexity of purpose."
Betty Friedan