George E. Vaillant Quotes & Sayings

As Newman struggled free of parental domination, he achieved a less constricted morality and became more comfortable with himself. In that greater comfort, he moved toward a greater comfort with, and willingness to be responsible for, others. None of the great psychologists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Freud and William James, had had anything to say about adult maturational processes like this. But over the decades, we at the Grant Study have watched fascinated as Adam Newman and his fellows changed and grew. — George E. Vaillant

It's very hard, for most of us to tolerate being loved. — George E. Vaillant

The only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people. — George E. Vaillant

Happiness is love. Full stop. — George E. Vaillant

It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all. — George E. Vaillant