Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

According to the prevailing mythology, to be younger is to be better; therefore, we should expect to find young people in the majority of those who reflect high well-being... In fact, the one finding that registered more consistently and emphatically than any other in the course of my research was this: Older is better.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course.

The secret in the search for meaning is to find your passion and pursue it.

by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.

Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.