George Vaillant Quotes

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• 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…
• It is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that allows us to live.
• The only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.
• It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes…
• It's very hard, for most of us to tolerate being loved.
• 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…
• The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars expended on the Grant Study points to a straightforward five-word conclusion: Happiness is love. Full stop.
• If you want to treat an illness that has no easy cure, first of all, treat them with hope.
• Joy is connection… The more areas in your life you can make connection, the better,
• Happiness is only the cart; love is the horse
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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…

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