Best 13 quotes in «baby boomer quotes» category

Maybe I have never had the Christmas I remember, since we never remember the event itself but just the last time we revisited the memory. I have woven together a few dozen scraps (the Sears catalog, my father videoing everything we did, Christmas parties and visits with Santa) and pretended they amount to one perfect, cohesive moment, but I am as guilty as baby-boomers, who dictated unconsciously that all the songs they listened to in 1963 would be the timeless Christmas standards of today.

Sometimes, the choices we make have devastating consequences

Practice empathy rather than sympathy.

You hear a lot about "digital natives." Well, baby boomers are the "digital founders.

The job you seek isn't out there in some job description, it's already inside you, aching to get out.

Use affirmations as statements of becoming, not statements of being.

Treasure quickly became junk when there was no place to put them.

Her life, she knew, was becoming simplified into an unbreakable chain of habits, a series of orderly actions at regular hours. Vaguely, she thought of herself as a happy woman; yet she was aware that this monotony of contentment had no relation to what she had called happiness in her youth. It was better perhaps; it was certainly as good; but it measured all the difference between youth and maturity.

Basically I'm pretty sure my mom thinks a well-thought-out list has the power to make time her personal bitch.

Chase career relationships, not job postings.

Getting fired is not shameful. It just means you need to find a better fit.

In order to create your future, you have to reconcile your past.

Hiding or lying about your age is giving in to ageism. Don't do it! Be proud of who you are, what you know and what you've accomplished.