There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Happy Nuns
Scientists have shown that people who focus on the positives actually live longer.
In a 2008 study, the scientist Deborah Danner* released a study of the Sisters of Notre Dame in Milwaukee. In the 1930's, each 22-year-old nun who joined the order was asked to write a short summary of her life. Those nuns who expressed the most positive emotions in their autobiographies outlived their more negative sisters by 7 years!
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*Danner, D., Friesen, W. & Collier, S. "Personal Narratives, Positive Emotions and Longer Lives: The Nun Study." Positive Psychology Perspectives Series, Shane Lopez (Ed.), Praeger: Westpoint, CT: Volume Two: 21-36, 2008.