Creative Free E-Books from The Real Success Resource Center: 

• Free E-Book (in PDF Format) — 1001 Best Things Ever Said about Work (and the Workplace)
• Free E-book (in PDF Format) — 17 Chapters from 101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting
• Free E-book (in PDF Format) — Sample Chapter from Real Success Without a Real Job

 

Retirement Gifts from The Retirement Quotes Café: 

• Retirement Gift #1 — Over Half of How to Retire Happy, Wild, & Free
• Retirement Gift #2 — The 237 Best Things Ever Said about Retirement
• Retirement Gift #3 — Sample Chapter from The Joy of Not Working

Quotations from Various Books by Ernie Zelinski

 

To fear retirement is to fear life.

— from How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free by Ernie J. Zelinski

 

Have you ever considered that your perception of reality could be wrong? If you haven't, this is a pretty good sign that it is.

— from 101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting by Ernie J. Zelinski 

 

Imagine that you are in control of your life. Now, the question is: Why do you have to imagine this?

— from Real Success without a Real Job by Ernie J. Zelinski

 

To put more time in your life, don't rush. Slow down instead. In a magical way, the world will ease up for you.

— from The Joy of Not Working by Ernie Zelinski

 

Anything great that has been accomplished in the history of humanity has started with one small thought. We all have those thoughts; few people do anything with theirs, however. What do you intend to do with yours?

— from Real Success Without a Real Job by Ernie J. Zelinski

 

You can always make up in creativity what you lack in good fortune. Playing the game of life is like playing poker. Playing three aces badly won't get you as far as playing a terrible hand well.

— from The Joy of Thinking Big by Ernie Zelinski

 

Anyone can achieve something important. Contrary to popular belief, the key is not hard work, but finding the right thing to achieve.

— from Real Success Without a Real Job by Ernie Zelinski

 

Never mistake hard work for success about to happen. Trying to achieve success solely through hard work is like trying to reach the North Pole by heading south. You may eventually get there, but it will take a hundred times the energy, time, and sacrifice that it should take.

— from Real Success Without a Real Job by Ernie Zelinski

 

If you expect to have it all, you will have nothing. Learn to be happy with nothing — and you will have it all!

— from 101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting by Ernie Zelinski

 

Live a little. Laugh a little. Love a little. Happiness will find you in a big way.

— from Life's Secret Guide to Happiness by Ernie J. Zelinski

 

Everyone seems to want to be somewhere they aren't. Choose to be where you are right now and you will be happier than 90 percent of humankind.

— from Life's Secret Guide to Happiness by Ernie J. Zelinski

 

Why waste so much time, energy, and money trying to buy the biggest house that your credit rating will allow? Truth be known, a small house can hold as much happiness as a large one. Sometimes it will hold even more.

— from Life's Secret Guide to Happiness by Ernie Zelinski

 

Just one great idea can change your life dramatically. Look for it. It's there somewhere.

— from Real Success Without a Real Job by Ernie Zelinski

 

Consider this carefully: If you are working more than eight hours a day, you are in the wrong job. Either that — or you are doing it wrong.

— from Real Success Without a Real Job by Ernie Zelinski

 

 

Prescription for Life-long Happiness:

Purpose enough for satisfaction;

Work enough for sustenance;

Sanity enough to know when to play and rest;

Wealth enough for basic needs;

Affection enough to like many and love a few;

Self-respect enough to love yourself;

Charity enough to give to others in need;

Courage enough to face difficulties;

Creativity enough to solve problems;

Humor enough to laugh at will;

Hope enough to expect an interesting tomorrow;

Gratitude enough to appreciate what you have;

Health enough to enjoy life for all its worth.

— from Life's Secret Guide to Happiness by Ernie Zelinski

 

 

When you think that you don't have time to watch a beautiful sunset — think again. The time when you most need to watch a sunset is when you don't have time for it!

— from The Joy of Not Working by Ernie J. Zelinski

 

If you must hurry, then hurry slowly. Speed kills — in more ways than one.

— from 101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting by Ernie J. Zelinski

 

If you want to live a long and happy life, forget how old you are — this gets more important the older you get!

— from How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free by Ernie J. Zelinski

 

Most people go to their graves regretting things they haven't done. The easiest way to become one of them is by joining society's chorus instead of singing your own songs.

— from 101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting by Ernie Zelinski

 

Don't wait for retirement to be happy and really start living. Invariably, people who try this find out that they have waited much too long.

— from How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free by Ernie J. Zelinski

 

People who observe no limits in attempting to get work done aren't nearly as smart as they think. Hard work can be done by any fool. But to be highly productive, and still have plenty of time to rest and play, this is where true genius resides.

— from Real Success Without a Real Job by Ernie J. Zelinski

 

Your suffering is something you choose. Experience it fully. Without it you will not achieve personal growth and higher consciousness.

— from Life's Secret Guide to Happiness by Ernie J. Zelinski

 

It's the creative people throughout the ages — the ones willing to risk, think differently, challenge the status quo, and ruffle a few feathers — who have made the biggest difference in this world. With a little more imaginative thinking, you can be one of these people.

— from Real Success Without a Real Job by Ernie Zelinski

 

If you believe that happiness can be bought, then why don't you try selling some of yours?

— from Life's Secret Guide to Happiness by Ernie Zelinski

 

When money is lost, a little is lost.

When time is lost, much more is lost.

When health is lost, practically everything is lost.

And when creative spirit is lost, there is nothing left.

— from 101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting by Ernie Zelinski  

 

Comfort is a double-edged sword. A decent measure will increase health and happiness; too much — and it will destroy both.

— from 101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting by Ernie Zelinski

 

The best advice that anyone can give you for choosing a specific career is never to accept someone else's advice. Indeed, one of the biggest reasons for choosing the career you have chosen should be that no one told you to.

— from Real Success Without a Real Job by Ernie Zelinski

 

Everything in life has a price attached to it. There is a price for not working hard enough — there can be an even larger price for working too hard!

— from The Joy of Not Working by Ernie Zelinski

 

Retirement is the beginning of life — not the end!

— from How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free by Ernie J. Zelinski

 

Ernie Zelinski

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