George Vaillant Quotes
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 younger than you, learn new things, and have fun.
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.
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.
If you want to treat an illness that has no easy cure, first of all, treat them with hope.
The recent years of the Grant Study have shown that our lives when we are old are the sum of all of our loves.
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 awe.
