Researchers at the University of Greenwich suggest best friends not family are the key to a happy retirement.
This is because so many grandparents have the freedom of their twilight days interrupted by childcare, they say, and are not able to do fun things in retirement.
Those with children or grandchildren were no more happy than those without, the study of 279 retirees presented to the British Psychological Society said.
But those with strong social networks interviewed for the study were 30 percent more satisfied with their lives than those without, according to the researchers>
Here are a few of the latest retirement quotes and retirement sayings that I have accumulated to help you retire happy:
This is because so many grandparents have the freedom of their twilight days interrupted by childcare, they say, and are not able to do fun things in retirement.
Those with children or grandchildren were no more happy than those without, the study of 279 retirees presented to the British Psychological Society said.
But those with strong social networks interviewed for the study were 30 percent more satisfied with their lives than those without, according to the researchers>
Here are a few of the latest retirement quotes and retirement sayings that I have accumulated to help you retire happy:
- #1 Retirement Quote of Second Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
Thank Heaven for Retirement!
— from How to Retire Happy, Wild and Free
#2 Retirement Quote of Second Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money.
— Jonathan Clements
#3 Retirement Quote of Second Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left.
— George F. Burns
#4 Retirement Quote of Second Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
Life is a game. Happy people are the players. Unhappy people are the spectators. Which would you like to be?
— from Life's Secret Handbook by Ernie J. Zelinski
#5 Retirement Quote of Second Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
Retirement is the time when you never do all the things you intended to do when you were still working.
— Unknown wise person
#6 Retirement Quote of Second Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
If my dreams could all come true paradise/retirement would be — in a little bungalow — somewhere by the sea.
— Unknown wise person
#7 Retirement Quote of Second Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you are old.
— Will Rogers
#8 Retirement Quote of Second Top-Ten List of 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
#9 Retirement Quote of Second Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
Retirement: A Time to Become Much More than You Have Ever Been
— from How to Retire Happy, Wild and Free
#10 Retirement Quote of Second Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
Retirement is waking up in the morning with nothing to do and by bedtime having done only half of it.
— Unknown wise person
