People who are making it to 100 live in environments where they are regularly nudged into physical activity. Dan Buettner Read Quote
Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life. Dan Buettner Read Quote
The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives. Dan Buettner Read Quote
I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That’s worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life. Dan Buettner Read Quote
One of the big things I’ve learned is that there’s an advantage to regular low-intensity activity. Dan Buettner Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I have always followed exactly what interests me and never really worried about the money. And when you think about it, to be able to travel the world… on an expense account and do exactly what interests you, it just doesn’t get much better than that. Dan Buettner Read Quote
The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. 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 Read Quote
