How to Live a Longer Life

Scenario: "You can't change it. Ahh!" Oh, but you can. To live a longer life, fill your life with sunny thoughts, happy feelings, and amazingly awesome smiles. A study of elderly nuns by a psychologist at the University of Kentucky, Deborah Danner, found that:

Nuns who'd expressed the most positive emotions in early adulthood -- using words like "thankful" and "joy" in diary entries -- lived about ten years longer than those who'd shown the fewest good feelings.

So when you're out changing the world this Sunday, remember this sucka:

"My life is freakishly good."

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