Orton Babb

“Good relationships keep us happier, healthier, and help us live longer.”
― Robert Waldinger, The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness

“A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place”
― John Rawls

“The good life is not always just out of reach after all. It is not waiting in the distant future after a dreamy career success. It’s not set to kick in after you acquire some massive amount of money. The good life is right in front of you, sometimes only an arm’s length away. And it starts now.”
― Robert Waldinger, The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Study on Happiness

“The richest relationships are often those that don’t fit neatly into the preconceived slots we have made for the archetypes we imagine would populate our lives—the friend, the lover, the parent, the sibling, the mentor, the muse. We meet people who belong to no single slot, who figure into multiple categories at different times and in different magnitudes. We then must either stretch ourselves to create new slots shaped after these singular relationships, enduring the growing pains of self-expansion, or petrify.”
― Maria Popova, Figuring