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Unfortunately, retirement often gets a bad rap from many media people and other individuals who themselves have not been able to successfully cope with retirement. Fortunately, however, people who can't cope with retirement are in the minority. "Retirement works out quite well for people," states Joel Savishinsky, a professor at Ithaca College. Savishinsky, author of Breaking the Watch, adds, "It is not the kind of trauma it has often been pictured in the past."

To be sure, most retired Americans are enjoying themselves according to a survey by financial services firm AIG SunAmerica. Similarly, based on a recent survey conducted by Trimark Investment Management, most retired Canadians have no regrets about being retired. The Canadian retirees taking part in the survey claimed that a drop in stress and an increase in intellectual stimulation since they left the workplace are two big advantages of being retired.

Regardless of your financial means, many books such as How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free and The Joy of Not Working can help you enhance your retirement. Generally speaking, the key to a happy retirement is not to spend a lot more money. The key, instead, is to select enjoyable activities that allow you to get by on the money that you presently have.

Indeed, millions of retirees have below-average incomes. Nonetheless, they manage to fill their days with happiness and joy — much more than some people who are filthy rich. Here is a list of top-ten retirement quotations to help you retire happy, wild, and free:

Number 1 of Top-Ten Positive Retirement Quotes

I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments.
— Richard Davies

Number 2 of Top-Ten Positive Retirement Quotes

The key to retirement is to find joy in the little things.
— Susan Miller

Number 3 of Top-Ten Positive Retirement Quotes

Retirement itself is the best gift. No gold watch could ever top it.
— Abigail Charleson

Number 4 of Top-Ten Positive Retirement Quotes

Yes, I am thoroughly enjoying retirement! The best part is observing my neighbors drive off to work in the morning knowing that that their day will be filled with jerks, brainless and endless meetings, jerks, vendor lunches where you hold your breath just waiting for the sales pitch until you regurgitate your pasta, more jerks and the eventual company reorganization of the section that was just reorganized last month!
— Bill Kalmar

Number 5 of Top-Ten Positive Retirement Quotes

Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.
— Gene Perret

Number 6 of Top-Ten Positive Retirement Quotes

A lot of our friends complain about their retirement. We tell 'em to get a life.
— Larry Laser

Number 7 of Top-Ten Positive Retirement Quotes

There is life after retirement, and it is BETTER.
— Catherine Pulsifer

Number 8 of Top-Ten Positive Retirement Quotes

If my dreams could all come true paradise/retirement would be — in a little bungalow — somewhere by the sea.
— Unknown wise person

Number 9 of Top-Ten Positive Retirement Quotes

I'm not retiring from life, just a job.
— Unknown wise person

Number 10 of Top-Ten Positive Retirement Quotes

Retire from work, but not from life. — M. K. Soni

In short, if you are already well into your retirement and you are not finding it as challenging and fulfilling as you had anticipated, Positive quotes about retirement may be just the inspiration you need to make retirement the best time of your life — to help you retire happy, wild, and free. If millions of other people can do it, so can you. However, like them, you must be motivated, you must be creative, and you must have a positive view of retirement.

Note: The above top-ten retirement quotes are adapted from:

Retirement Quotations to Help You with Your Retirement Planning

and

How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free by Ernie Zelinski

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