Robert J. Waldinger Quotes

‘The good life is built with good relationships.’ – Robert J. Waldinger

‘It’s not just the number of friends you have, and it’s not whether or not you’re in a committed relationship. It’s the quality of your close relationships that matters.’ – Robert J. Waldinger

‘Being human means there’s a wall-builder in each of us. Our minds naturally divide the world into me and not-me, us and them. For thousands of years, our sages have taught that we’re all one, yet we still divide wherever we look.’ – Robert J. Waldinger

‘It seems older people maximize their well-being more – they start to realize that life is short.’ – Robert J. Waldinger

‘It turns out that people who are more socially connected to family, to friends, to community, are happier, they’re physically healthier, and they live longer than people who are less well connected.’ – Robert J. Waldinger

‘It’s the quality of your relationships that matters.’ – Robert J. Waldinger

‘Pictures of entire lives, of the choices that people make and how those choices work out for them, those pictures are almost impossible to get.’ – Robert J. Waldinger

‘Most of what we know about human life we know from asking people to remember the past, and as we know, hindsight is anything but 20/20. We forget vast amounts of what happens to us in life, and sometimes memory is downright creative.’ – Robert J. Waldinger

‘People who are more isolated than they want to be from others find that they are less happy, their health declines earlier in midlife, their brain functioning declines sooner, and they live shorter lives than people who are not lonely.’ – Robert J. Waldinger

‘Our kind of research might be one of the first projects to go. Our work is not urgent; it’s not the cure for cancer or Alzheimer’s. But we have a way of understanding human life that you can’t get anywhere else, and it lays the foundation for important, actionable things.’ – Robert J. Waldinger