"Instead of you pouring out your life and"

“Instead of you pouring out your life and giving out your life and exchanging it for a porridge called salary, instead of selling out your life bit by bit until you are old and empty and until you become so old that they send you off to die in retirement, you should come to the realization that you could actually multiply and reproduce your life through the power of time conversion.”

- Sunday Adelaja,

Tag: calling, conversion, convert, gift, great, greatness, humanity, life, poverty, power, power-of-time-conversion, produce, product, productivity, purpose, realization, reproduce-your-life, retirement, salary, time, time-conversion, value, waste, wealth, work, world,

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“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,

Tag: greatness, idleness, retirement, time,

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“I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business.The day you die.”

- Yasunari Kawabata,

Tag: novels, retirement, writing,

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“With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.”

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Tag: adage, adages, age, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, babies, baby, birth, child, children, cycle, cycle-of-life, death, deep, dependence, dependent, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, giant, gigantic, gnome, gnomes, gray-hair, grey-hair, humor, humour, immortal, immortality, independence, independent, infant, infants, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, mental-capabilities, mental-capability, middle-age, middle-aged, mortal, mortality, old, old-age, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, retire, retirement, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, sexuality, thought-provoking, thoughtful, toddler, toddlers, wrinkle, wrinkles,

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“Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.”

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Tag: adage, adages, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, belief, beliefs, deep, dictum, dictums, endurance, endure, epigram, epigrams, gnome, gnomes, greed, greedy, humor, humour, ignorance, ignorant, insightful, knowledge, knowledgeable, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, misbelief, misbeliefs, old, old-age, old-age-home, old-age-homes, preservation, preserve, problem, problems, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, retire, retired, retirement, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, social, social-ill, social-ills, societal, society, stamina, stupid, stupidity, thought-provoking, thoughtful, wisdom, wise, young,

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“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Tag: adage, adages, adolescent, adolescents, adult, adulthood, adults, africa, african, ancient, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, child, children, dead, death, deep, dependence, dependent, develop, developing, development, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, existence, four-stages-of-life, funny, gnome, gnomes, grandparent, grandparents, grow, growing, growth, humor, humorous, humour, immortal, immortality, independence, independent, infant, infants, insightful, life, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, mortal, mortality, newborn, newborns, old, old-age, old-age-home, old-age-homes, phase, phases, philosopher, prepubescent, process, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, retire, retired, retiree, retirees, retirement, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, senile, senility, south-africa, south-african, stage, stages, stages-of-life, teenage, teenager, teenagers, thought-provoking, thoughtful, young, youth, youths,

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“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even those who are raw.”

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana,

Tag: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, birth, bolt, bolt-down, born, child, childfree, childhood, childless, children, consolation, console, consume, consuming, cook, cooked, cooking, dead, death, deep, devour, devouring, dictum, dictums, dying, eat, eat-up, eating, elder, elderly, epigram, epigrams, feast, feast-on, feasting, feasts, funny, gnome, gnomes, gobble, gobble-down, gobble-up, gulp, gulp-down, guzzle, half-cooked, humor, humorous, humour, hunger, hungry, immortal, immortality, insightful, kid, kids, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, mortal, mortality, newborn, newborns, obituary, old, old-age, philosopher, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, raw, retire, retirement, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, selfish-selfishness, shovel-down, south-africa, south-african, stoic, stoicism, stoics, thought-provoking, thoughtful, wolf, wolf-down, young,

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“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human beings, because they—unlike all companies—have the means of reproduction.”

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana,

Tag: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, birth, birthrate, birthrates, business, businesses, buy, buyer, child, childfree, childless, children, commerce, community, companies, company, consumer, consumers, countries, country, death-rate, death-rates, deep, dependent, dependents, depopulation, dictum, dictums, economic-growth, economics, economy, employ, employed, employment, endeavor, endeavors, endeavour, endeavours, epigram, epigrams, exploit, exploitation, funny, gnome, gnomes, greed, greedy, humor, humorous, humour, insightful, job, jobs, kid, kids, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, means, means-of-production, means-of-reproduction, obtain, philosopher, population, population-pyramid, pregnancy, pregnant, procreate, procreation, production, profit, profitability, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, reproduce, reproduction, retain, retire, retirement, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, selfish-selfishness, sell, sellers, selling, sex, sexual-intercourse, south-africa, south-african, thought-provoking, thoughtful, unemployed, unemployment, wealth, wealthy, work, worker, workers,

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“Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.”

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana,

Tag: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, bore, bored, boredom, childfree, childless, companion, companionship, deep, dictum, dictums, elder, elderly, entertainment, epigram, epigrams, funny, gnome, gnomes, humor, humorous, humour, insightful, loneliness, lonely, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, old, old-age, philosopher, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, retire, retired, retirement, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, selfish-selfishness, south-africa, south-african, thought-provoking, thoughtful, torture, torturing, young, youngster, youngsters,

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“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,

Tag: born, career, duty, dying, hope, hopelessness, nursing-home, office, retirement, spawning, want,

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

- Frank Eberhart

Tag: finance, income, retirement, success,

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“Even idiots can reach old age.”

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Tag: fool, idiot, imbecile, old, old-age, retirement, stupidity, wisdom, young, youth,

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“Silver surfers … nah, that’s old hat. Retire a gold surfer with Cosmic Ordering.”

- Stephen Richards,

Tag: abundance-creation, author-stephen-richards, cosmic-ordering, fearless, focus, goal-setting, goals, happiness, law-of-attraction, life-changing, manifestation, manifesting, metaphysical, millionaire-mindset, mind-body-spirit, mind-power, money, new-age, new-age-movement, new-thought, opportunities, opportunity, positive-thought, positive-thoughts, positivity, retirement, self-belief, self-growth, self-help, self-limiting-beliefs, self-motivation, self-realization, spiritual, spirituality, stephen-richards, success, synchronicity, visualization, wealth-creation,

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

- Dejan Stojanovic

Tag: age, answer, answers, dejan-stojanovic, early-age, literature, literature-quotes, poetry, poetry-quotes, quotes, retirement, thoughts, wisdom,

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