Dan Buettner Quotes

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• Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't…
• True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.
• A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.
• The more things for which you develop a fondness the richer the life you live.
• So setting up automatic savings plans, and buying insurance as opposed to buying a new thing. The newness effect of a new thing wears off…
• So learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.
• Eat your vegetables, have a positive outlook, be kind to people, and smile.
• If one fails to develop goals that give meaning to one’s existence, if one does not use the mind to it’s fullest, then good feelings…
• Singapore is the happiest place in Asia
• It's hard to reach [the age of] 100. We're not programmed for longevity. We are programmed for something called procreative success.
• The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
• Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example.
• Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
• Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.
• If you’re eating vegetables you are probably pushing unhealthier food out of your diet.
• I wake up in the morning and I see that flower, with the dew on its petals, and at the way it's folding out, and…
• Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying…
• Drink without getting drunk Love without suffering jealousy Eat without overindulging Never argue And once in a while, with great discretion, misbehave
• None of the longest-lived people ran marathons or pumped iron. They live exactly as their grandparents before them - surrounded by family and friends.
• Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.

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