Robert J. Waldinger Quotes

So, the older I got the more I started to appreciate balance and variety in my life, and once you get a taste of that returning and realize how happy it can make you it is very difficult to conceive giving that up again.

If my biggest problem in life was to be healthy, I'd be incredibly bored.

I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like' and 'things that I must do.' You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it.

I have always done things that made me happy. I work with people I like, and I do the job I like. I only see people who I like to be with. I have led a wonderful life.

With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.

The older you get, the better you get. The key is just keeping the body up with the mind. The mind keeps developing when the body is breaking down.

Being happy, being healthy, is the most important thing.

I want to increase awareness for the importance of life.

Life shouldn't be something that's draining and long.

I just want to focus on the positive things in my life.

You can get too involved with all the wee things in life, but the most important thing is you're alive and well.

As you get older, the cliches of life ring true. It's the simple things that matter most: your family, the people you love, your health and sanity.

I am a much happier 27-year-old than I was at 20 years old. I am so fortunate because I have an amazing family, amazing friends and a great support system. I think at 27 it is much easier for me to look at life and appreciate what I have rather than stressing about the little things day to day.

Time And well being are two valuable belongings that we do not acknowledge and respect till they've been depleted.

I can't believe I'm breathing and happy and thriving.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you're not healthy. You can't appreciate it.

If you don't have your health, you don't have anything.

There was a point where there was a vision that we'll get to a certain age, and then we'll retire and be happy. Now that's like, that's being compromised every day. So I think we have to start living happy now and stop waiting for the forty years because by then you'll be so sick, you wouldn't enjoy it anyway.

Exercise is about being grateful for the body you have and sustaining the life you have.

I definitely don't feel like I'm 71. I feel like I did when I was - between 30 and 40. The body ages. The mind doesn't.

It'll keep you alive for another 10 years if you get yourself a laugh once a day: either provoke it, or look around in the wildest laboratory in the world, the public.

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.