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The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50
Now, on the contrary, I enjoy life; I might almost say that with every year that passes I enjoy it more. This is due partly to having discovered what were the things that I most desired, and having gradually acquired many of these things.
Bertrand Russell • The Conquest of Happiness
earlier investments in health would actually yield greater lifetime fulfillment.
Bill Perkins • Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life
But for those who make the jump, the reward is almost always enormous. In interviewing people for this book, I found that invariably, the people who are happiest and most satisfied in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are those who made this leap. Here are a couple of examples, starting with a fifty-eight-year-old male actuary. Here’s what he t
... See moreArthur C. Brooks • From Strength to Strength
Emanating from these lives are larger questions about the measure of a good life and what it means to leave a lasting mark of betterment on an imperfect world: Are achievement and acclaim enough for happiness? Is genius? Is love? Weaving through the narrative is a set of peripheral figures — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Darwin, Elizabeth Barrett Br... See more