Laughter Keeping You Young Quotes & Sayings

The children were watched through a one-way mirror, and the film that shows their behavior during the waiting time always has the audience roaring in laughter. About half the children managed the feat of waiting for 15 minutes, mainly by keeping their attention away from the tempting reward. Ten or fifteen years later, a large gap had opened between those who had resisted temptation and those who had not. The resisters had higher measures of executive control in cognitive tasks, and especially the ability to reallocate their attention effectively. As young adults, they were less likely to take drugs. A significant difference in intellectual aptitude emerged: the children who had shown more self-control as four-year-olds had substantially higher scores on tests of intelligence. — Daniel Kahneman

Transformations
All night he ran, his body air,
But that was in another year.
Lately the answered shape of his laughter,
The shape of his smallest word, is fire.
He who is a fierce young crier
Of poems will be as tranquil as water,
Keeping, in sunset glow, the pure
Image of limitless desire;
Then enter earth and come to be,
Inch by inch, geography. — Stanley Kunitz

If somebody ever wished to be me for a day, they'd be the most pissed-off person once they got here. They would be, like, in hell. — Jennifer Aniston

Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent. — Henry Ward Beecher

Now I can rejoice that I knew you, rather than mourn because I lost you. — Arthur C. Clarke

Maybe nothing that happens upon stolen ground can expect a happy ending. — Zadie Smith

To truly appreciate something, you must confine yourself to it. There's a certain level of joy and meaning that you reach in life only when you've spent decades investing in a single relationship, a single craft, a single career. And you cannot achieve those decades of investment without rejecting the alternatives. — Mark Manson

The Lord only demands of us what is within our capabilities. — Paulo Coelho

Look at him. But I can't. Too many things are exploding in my head, and the memories are both simpler and more horrible — Lisa Gardner

Expressing the thoughts of my comrades, I suggested, among other means, the organization of an international information service on inventories, on production, and on the needs of the various countries for raw materials. — Leon Jouhaux

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking. — Bliss Carman