Speed As A Drug Disorganizes The Personality;

Husbands Come And Go; Children Come And Eventually They Go. Friends Grow Up And Move Away. But The One Thing That's Never Lost Is Your Sister.

According To The Prevailing Mythology, To Be Younger Is To Be Better; Therefore, We Should Expect To Find Young People In The Majority Of Those Who Reflect High Well-being... In Fact, The One Finding That Registered More Consistently And Emphatically Than Any Other In The Course Of My Research Was This: Older Is Better.

My Research Offers Impressive Evidence That We Feel Better When We Attempt To Make Our World Better...to Have A Purpose Beyond One's Self Lends To Existence A Meaning And Direction - The Most Important Characteristic Of High Well-being.

As We Reach Midlife In The Middle Thirties Or Early Forties, We Are Not Prepared For The Idea That Time Can Run Out On Us, Or For The Startling Truth That If We Don't Hurry To Pursue Our Own Definition Of A Meaningful Existence, Life Can Become A Repetition Of Trivial Maintenance Duties.

If We Don't Change, We Don't Grow. If We Don't Grow, We Aren't Really Living.