Teresa Ghilarducci quotes

“My research shows that uncertainty about your income at older ages causes more depression, causes more anxiety, which could lead to more chronic heart failure, heart disease, does actually mean shorter lifespans.”
-- Teresa Ghilarducci

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“Over half of people who are working now and over 50 have nothing for retirement savings. They will only have Social Security to rely on.”
-- Teresa Ghilarducci

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“And our conception that the way we can mitigate the fact that people don't have retirement savings can be more work, or working longer, or just sort of staying in the game for longer is really a false hope. And it's a false promise.”
-- Teresa Ghilarducci

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“We live in a culture where it's just delicious to shame and blame. We have what I call sometimes a "smugtocracy."”
-- Teresa Ghilarducci

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“We're finding that very well-educated people, people who have done everything right, are behind, really behind. And they are hoping they can stay in the labor market, but a word that's used in other countries that isn't used here is very apt here.”
-- Teresa Ghilarducci

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“Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.”

“Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.”

“His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.”

“To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.”

“You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.”

“The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.”

“I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.”

“Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.”

Source : "Alain de Botton's Healing Arts" by Joshua Rothman, www.newyorker.com. November 19, 2013.

“I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart attack. The anxiety would be way too much for me. I don't have as strong a backbone as those other show writers.”