A piece of wisdom from
July 7, 2025 · Monday
The quote
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didnt do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.”
— H. Jackson Brown Jr. (commonly misattributed to Twain) · Fear
The concept
Relationships
The biggest single predictor of how long, and how happily, you will live.
The longest study of human happiness ever conducted, the Harvard Adult Development Study, started in 1938 and still running, has one finding so clear it is almost embarrassing: the people who are happiest, healthiest, and live longest are t…
A practice for today
Before bed tonight, name one thing where the lesson of Relationships. The biggest single predictor of how long, and how happily, you will live.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 16.21
त्रिविधं नरकस्येदं द्वारं नाशनमात्मनः। कामः क्रोधस्तथा लोभस्तस्मादेतत्त्रयं त्यजेत्॥
“Three are the gates of this hell, destructive of the self — lust, anger, and greed. Therefore, abandon these three.”
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