It turns out that people who are more socially connected to family, to friends, to community, are happier, they're physically healthier, and they live longer than people who are less well connected.
Interpretation
Social connections lead to greater happiness and health.
This quote emphasizes the importance of social connections, suggesting that those who maintain strong ties to family, friends, and their community experience greater happiness, better physical health, and increased longevity compared to those who are more isolated. It highlights the idea that our relationships significantly impact our overall well-being and life satisfaction.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a family reunion to highlight the importance of staying connected.
Being human means there's a wall-builder in each of us. Our minds naturally divide the world into me and not-me, us and them. For thousands of years, our sages have taught that we're all one, yet we still divide wherever we look.
It's the quality of your relationships that matters.
The good life is built with good relationships.
It's not just the number of friends you have, and it's not whether or not you're in a committed relationship. It's the quality of your close relationships that matters.
People who are more isolated than they want to be from others find that they are less happy, their health declines earlier in midlife, their brain functioning declines sooner, and they live shorter lives than people who are not lonely.
Most of what we know about human life we know from asking people to remember the past, and as we know, hindsight is anything but 20/20. We forget vast amounts of what happens to us in life, and sometimes memory is downright creative.
What does the brain matter compared with the heart?
It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear.
Severus Snape wasn't yours," said Harry. "Snape was Dumbledores, Dumbledores from the moment you started hunting down my mother.
Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.
I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract.
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
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