“Older people report higher levels of contentment or well-being than teenagers and young adults. The six elders put faces on this statistic. If they were not always gleeful, they were resilient and not paralyzed by the challenges that came their way. All had known loss and survived. None went to a jo…”— John Leland, mobile.nytimes.comTagged: Happiness, The Wisdom of the Wise, How To Think, The Person You'll Become, Aging