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“One could live to two hundred. But yet I see some young people, twenty years old, and they seem to be bored already with life, and some of them cannot stand it. That’s something else.”
― John Leland, Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old

“But it makes the experience of the problem easier. When I finally changed my perspective and accepted that those problems too shall pass, and life will go on, it was radically liberating. Hard times will always hurt, I’m not saying that. But changing the picture frame around those hard times changes the way you see them.”
― Susie Orman Schnall, The Subway Girls

“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

“Researchers have long observed that older people who feel a sense of purpose in their lives tend to live longer, fuller,”
― John Leland, Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old