Birth: 1934
The recent years of the Grant Study have shown that our lives when we are old are the sum of all of our loves..
If you want to treat an illness that has no easy cure, first of all, treat them with hope..
Happiness is only the cart; love is the horse.
Anxiety and depression are the price you pay for a well-lived life..
We can laugh from either joy or happiness, but we weep only from grief or joy...Without the pain of farewell, there is no joy in reunion...without th….
The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars expended on the Grant Study points to a straightforward five-word conclusion: Happiness is love. Fu….
Joy is connection... The more areas in your life you can make connection, the better..
It is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that allows us to live..
Life ain't easy. Terrible things happen to everyone. You have to keep your sense of humor, give something of yourself to others, make friends who are….
Whether we live to a vigorous old age lies not so much in our stars or in our genes but in ourselves..
Creativity can never be explained by appeal to reason alone. Like the birth of a child, creativity compels us not to explanation but to wonder and a….
Our lives are like the talents in the parable of the three stewards. It is something that has been given to us for the time being and we have the opp….
It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation mak….
Aging happy and well, instead of sad and sick, is at least under some personal control. We have considerable control over our weight, our exercise, o….
Our lives become the sum of all whom we have loved. It is important not to waste anyone. One task of living out the last half of life is excavating a….
It's very hard, for most of us to tolerate being loved..
The only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people..