“The men and women who scored highest on conscientiousness—that is, who control their impulses, who were dependable and goal-oriented—had 89 percent lower… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Men and women Copy Share Image
“Lonely people were not faking their symptoms. Their own bodies were reacting to loneliness at a cellular level, trying to nudge them… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Friendship Copy Share Image
“I came to define God by His handiwork: a craftsman who builds the hope of eternity into our genes, a master electrician… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Death Copy Share Image
“The two researchers collaborated on a pilot study.32 What they found was that loneliness reprogrammed a person’s genes in the same way… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Immune system Copy Share Image
“Develop thought patterns, particularly purpose in life, now, in one’s forties, fifties, and sixties. Find a purpose beyond your career—because you will… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Career Copy Share Image
“There are no periods, no paragraphs, there’s no punctuation,” Utzschneider said. “There’s no structure to give us a sense of order.” — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Copy Share Image
“In general, the older you are, the more adept you are at managing your emotions. Compared with young people, middle-aged and especially… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Older people Copy Share Image
“Every idea in this book runs against our natural tendency to want to relax, take it easy, reward ourselves for decades of… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Books Copy Share Image
“The real distinction between a material and spiritual worldview, [William] James wrote does not rest in "hair splitting abstraction about matter's inner… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Attributes of god Copy Share Image
“In fact, people with little purpose were two and a half times more likely to develop dementia than those with a mission.” — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Goals Copy Share Image
“researchers (with Ph.D.’s). “It turns out that if you get dementia, you’ll get it later, but you’ll also progress a little bit… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Science Copy Share Image
“Fully a third of people who, as autopsies indicate, have the disease show no cognitive decline, no evidence of Alzheimer’s.1 At first,… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Copy Share Image
