Quotes by George Vaillant

George Vaillant

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 education, and our abuse of cigarettes and alcohol. With hard work and/or therapy, our relationships with our spouses and our coping styles can be changed for the better. A successful old age may lie not so much in our stars and genes as in ourselves.

Hard Work

Lying

Stars

Anxiety and depression are the price you pay for a well-lived life.

Anxiety

Pay

Wells

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.

Birth

Children

Creativity

Happiness is only the cart; love is the horse

Carts

Horse

Love Is

If you want to treat an illness that has no easy cure, first of all, treat them with hope.

Firsts

Illness

Want

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 liars of us all.

Butterfly

Liars

Littles

It is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that allows us to live.

Problem

Problem Solving

Stress

It’s very hard, for most of us to tolerate being loved.

Being Loved

Hard

Tolerate

Joy is connection… The more areas in your life you can make connection, the better.

Areas

Connections

Joy

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.

Fun

Giving

Sense Of Humor

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Areas

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Butterfly

Carts

Children

Connections

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Dollars

Firsts

Fun

Giving

Grief

Grieving

Happiness

Hard

Hard Work

Horse

Illness

Joy

Liars

Littles

Lost Love

Love Is

Lying

Matter

Opportunity

Our Love

Our Relationship

Pain

Pay

People

Privilege

Problem

Problem Solving

Recovery

Sense Of Humor

Stars

Stress

Study

Three

Tolerate

Twenties

Want

Wells

Years

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Quotes by George Vaillant

George Vaillant

Anxiety and depression are the price you pay for a well-lived life.

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.

Happiness is only the cart; love is the horse

If you want to treat an illness that has no easy cure, first of all, treat them with hope.

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 liars of us all.

It is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that allows us to live.

It’s very hard, for most of us to tolerate being loved.

Joy is connection… The more areas in your life you can make connection, the better.

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.

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