Quotes from George Vaillant

The only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.

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.

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

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

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

The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars expended on the Grant Study points to a straightforward five-word conclusion: Happiness is love. Full stop.

Happiness is only the cart; love is the horse

The recent years of the Grant Study have shown that our lives when we are old are the sum of all of our loves.

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.

The only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.

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