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4 Secrets to Finding Purpose and Community After Retirement

By Andrea Brandt — 2019

Structure and community are things you may be surprised to miss.

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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

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No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

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We read to know we are not alone.

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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.

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Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

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People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

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When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.

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Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

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