Quotes About Well-being

... class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor.

Think of your moods as a thermometer that takes the temperature of your life, if you just want to be happy all the time, it's like wanting to break your thermometer.

The next time you're tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead. It will extend your life and make the lives of all those around you more enjoyable.

Every aspect of your life is anchored energetically in your living space, so clearing your clutter can completely transform your entire existence.

The goal of Scientology is making the individual capable of living a better life in his own estimation and with his fellows and the playing of a better game.

The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.

If I want a fucked with HEA, I'll go outside and talk to people.

I learned years later that my gratitude practice actually helped me form new neural pathways. The hippie rituals of positive affirmations are not just baloney. Gratitude doesn't exist only in your mind—you have to feel it in your whole being. Feelings are the shadows of thoughts. When we have negative thoughts, our emotions mirror them with anxiety. You can often see what you are thinking by reverse engineering and studying your feelings.

Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross National Product.

Over the course of several years, if I didn't respect my brain's need for sleep, my sensory systems experienced agonizing pain and I became psychologically and physically depleted.

The lesson of the Funk Dog: "You can forget what it used to feel like to feel good about life; feeling rotten—or just a low-grad funk—seems normal and therefore acceptable. I just don't believe that God intended for any of his creatures to be petted with sticks.

People are living too much or too little, and I wondered if anyone out there is living the right amount.

Isn't it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do?

Isn't it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do?

Emotional flexibility reflects the capacity to move freely and appropriately along a wide spectrum of emotions rather than responding rigidly or defensively. Emotional resilience is the ability to bounce back from experiences of disappointment, frustration and even loss.

We survive on too little sleep, wolf down fast foods on the run, fuel up with coffee and cool down with alcohol and sleeping pills. Faced with relentless demands at work, we become short-tempered and easily distracted. We return home from long days at work feeling exhausted and often experience our families not as a source of joy and renewal, but as one more demand in an already overburdened life.

You get lonely, is what it is. A person's not supposed to go through life with absolutely nobody. It's not normal. The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get, and the weirder you get the longer you go by yourself. It's a loop and you gotta do something to get out of it.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

Everyone looks so much better when they smile.

Sometimes the best thing that can happen to a person is to have a puppy lick your face.

For, without the knowledge of love, fear is all that remains, and we can never feel safe.

How does your attitude affect your energy level?

Retrospect the way that you expressed feelings yesterday. If you tend to use your feelings as a way to justify feeling bad, consider the possibility that you could use your feelings as guides to feeling better.