Dan Buettner famous quotes

Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example.
-- Dan Buettner

#Fun #Example #Driving

I wake up in the morning and I see that flower, with the dew on its petals, and at the way it's folding out, and it makes me happy, she said. It's important to focus on the things in the here and now, I think. In a month, the flower will be shriveled and you will miss its beauty if you don't make the effort to do it now. Your life, eventually, is the same way.
-- Dan Buettner

#Morning #Flower #Thinking

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.
-- Dan Buettner

#Dream #Giving #Goal

Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.
-- Dan Buettner

#Inspirational #Thanksgiving #Gratitude

Deepen your existing spiritual commitment.
-- Dan Buettner

#Spiritual #Commitment

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

#Long #Healthy #Life Is

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

#Years #Knowing #Add

Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.
-- Dan Buettner

Diet and supplements and exercise programs aren't what is achieving longevity. Having a faith-based community can add four to 14 years.
-- Dan Buettner

#Exercise #Years #Community

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

#Reality #People #Aging

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.
-- Dan Buettner

#People #Meat #Celebration

I live on the water. I live in a neighborhood that's consummately connected to my neighbors. I bump into them every day. I can bike to work.
-- Dan Buettner

#Water #Bumps #Neighbor

You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.
-- Dan Buettner

#Beautiful #Garden #Yield

Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.
-- Dan Buettner

#Way #Decline #Walking

Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
-- Dan Buettner

#Home #Kids #Grandparent

You have to know why you get up every morning.
-- Dan Buettner

#Morning #Every Morning

The happiest people in America socialize about seven hours a day,
-- Dan Buettner

#America #People #Hours

If you’re eating vegetables you are probably pushing unhealthier food out of your diet.
-- Dan Buettner

#Vegetables #Pushing #Eating

Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.
-- Dan Buettner

#People #Lifestyle #Select

Drink without getting drunk Love without suffering jealousy Eat without overindulging Never argue And once in a while, with great discretion, misbehave
-- Dan Buettner

#Drunk #Suffering #Arguing

True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.
-- Dan Buettner

#Being Happy #Dream #Goal

A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.
-- Dan Buettner

#Doctors #Together #May

The more things for which you develop a fondness the richer the life you live.
-- Dan Buettner

#Fondness

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.
-- Dan Buettner

#Years #Saving #Nine

So learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.
-- Dan Buettner

#Years #Play #Pay

Eat your vegetables, have a positive outlook, be kind to people, and smile.
-- Dan Buettner

#Vegetables #People #Be Kind

Singapore is the happiest place in Asia
-- Dan Buettner

#Asia #Singapore

It's hard to reach [the age of] 100. We're not programmed for longevity. We are programmed for something called procreative success.
-- Dan Buettner

#Motivation #Inspiration #Age

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

#People #Healthy #Influence

Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
-- Dan Buettner

#Doors #Snow #Rakes

Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.
-- Dan Buettner

#Exercise #Garden #People