Dan Buettner Quotations

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.

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

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.

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

Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.

You have to know why you get up every morning.

Deepen your existing spiritual commitment.

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

Singapore is the happiest place in Asia

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