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“The good things in life-happiness, purpose, contentment, companionship, beauty, and love-have been there all along. We don't need to earn them. Good food, friends, art, warmth, worth-these are the things we have already. We just need to choose them as our lives.”
― John Leland, Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old

“The lesson was to find happiness not in the absence of pain and loss, but in their acceptance.”
― John Leland, Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old

“problems were only problems if you thought about them that way. Otherwise they were life—and yours for the living.”
― John Leland, Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old

“They saw themselves as sums not of their disabilities but of their strategies for living with them.”
― John Leland, Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old