The Fountain of Youth in 98 Words.

I saw this quote in bestselling author James Clear’s weekly newsletter not too long ago. It’s from writer and designer Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction:

”The producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day after day, first from carelessness, then from inclination, at last from cowardice or inertia. Habit is necessary; but it is the habit of having careless habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive…one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.”

Drink up.