Midlife

"Nostalgia is proof that you are living a life worth living. It is a privilege to yearn for your own memories"

Distinguish between what’s in your control and what isn’t. If it’s not in your control, put it out of your head. Trying to control outcomes makes you disappointed and resentful. Focus only on your thoughts and actions.

Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion

Lifestyle. This may be the big one. Several clues are starting to emerge that point to parallels between the lifestyles of super agers. Healthy-aging researchers have identified four common habits.

A physically and intellectually active lifestyle.

The willingness or ability to constantly challenge oneself.

An active social life and a wide social... See more

Jeanne Dorin McDowell • Celebrating What's Right With Aging: Inside the Minds of Super Agers

To be aware means to be sensitive, alive to the things about one, to nature, to people, to colour, to trees, to the environment, to the social structure, the whole thing; to be aware outwardly of all that’s happening and to be aware of what is happening inside.

—Krishnamurti