Melanie

“The same is true for social fitness. It’s not easy to take care of our relationships today, and in fact, we tend to think that once we establish friendships and intimate relationships, they will take care of themselves. But like muscles, neglected relationships atrophy. Our social life is a living system. And it needs exercise.”
― Robert Waldinger, The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness

“Because when our attention is firmly ensconced in the past or the future, we remain outside the present moment, the only dimension of the temporal domain of integration in which we are able to find joy and create beauty, even in the presence of our suffering. The psalmist offers a commitment to focus on something different than what we commonly do.”
― Curt Thompson, The Soul of Desire: Discovering the Neuroscience of Longing, Beauty, and Community

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― Robert Waldinger, The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness

“Who would we become if we could see the moments we occupy as opportunities to create beauty, not least on our relational canvases?”
― Curt Thompson, The Soul of Desire: Discovering the Neuroscience of Longing, Beauty, and Community