George Eman Vaillant Quotes

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It is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that allows us to live.

George Eman Vaillant

Our lives become the sum of all whom we have loved. It is important not to waste anyone. One task of living out the last half of life is excavating and recovering all of those whom we loved in the first half. Thus, the recovery of lost loves becomes an important way in which the past affects the present.

George Eman Vaillant

The only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.

George Eman 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 Eman Vaillant

Creativity can never be explained by appeal to reason alone. Like the birth of a child, creativity compels us not to explanation but to wonder and awe.

George Eman Vaillant

The recent years of the Grant Study have shown that our lives when we are old are the sum of all of our loves.

George Eman Vaillant

George Eman Vaillant

George Eman Vaillant

Born: 1934 (age 90)

Bio: George Eman Vaillant is an American psychiatrist and Professor at Harvard Medical School and Director of Research for the Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Known for:

Triumphs of Experience (2012)
Adaptation to life (1977)
The Natural History of Alcoholism Revisited (1995)
The wisdom of the ego (1993)

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