A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.

The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.

Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life.

The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.

The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.

So setting up automatic savings plans, and buying insurance as opposed to buying a new thing. The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.

If one fails to develop goals that give meaning to one’s existence, if one does not use the mind to it’s fullest, then good feelings fulfill just a fraction of the potential we possess. True happiness involves the pursuit of worthy goals. Without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.