Quotes About Well-being

My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being.

A healthy outside starts from the inside.

Starting now and lasting until forever, your health and healthcare will be determined, to a remarkable and somewhat disquieting degree, by how well the technology works.

In the United States, people with depression, bipolar, and schizophrenia are losing twelve to twenty years in life expectancy compared to people not in the mental health system.

Prior to being medicated, a depressed person has no known chemical imbalance.

In fact, one of the take-home lessons of Buddhist philosophy is that feelings just are. If we accepted their arising and subsiding as part of life, rather than reacting to them as if they were deeply meaningful, we'd often be better off.

Still, suppose—just as a thought experiment—that your goal wasn't living as long as possible but rather attaining the

when sleep is the only comfort you can take, take it. It will leave you better prepared for whatever might come next.

Be content with your own life, my friend, and live it well. Let others decide for themselves what path they will follow.

I'm nutty for nutrition. I've become one of those people who can't stop talking about the connection between food and health. Now that I know how much changing what you eat can transform your life, I can't stop proselytizing.

I wonder if much that ails our society stems from the fact that we have allowed ourselves to be cut off from that love of, and from, the land. It is medicine for broken land and empty hearts.

But we make a grave error if we try to separate individual well-being from the health of the whole.

we make a grave error when we try to separate individual well-being from the health of the whole.

They said that nature was the place where they experienced the greatest sense of belonging and well-being.

For the greater part of human history, and in places in the world today, common resources were the rule. But some invented a different story, a social construct in which everything ins a commodity to be bought and sold. The market economy story has spread like wildfire, with uneven results for human well-being and devastation for the natural world. But it it just a story we have told ourselves and we are free to tell another, to reclaim the old one.

we make a grave error if we try to separate individual well-being from the health of the whole.

Sweetgrass pickers collect properly and respectfully, for their own use and the needs of their community. They return a gift to the earth and tend to the well-being of the wiingashk.

The market economy story has spread like wildfire, with uneven results for human well-being and devastation for the natural world. But it is just a story we have told ourselves

If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.

We'll make out for a while and you'll feel better.

ISABEL: Sorry I missed my session Monday. DR. RUSH: Would you like to tell me why? ISABEL: I was depressed. DR. RUSH: That's a good reason to come to therapy.

eating for two.

Her mother always said that when you were sad or worried or angry, that you had to do something. Anything. Go for a walk. Make cookies. Draw a picture. Clean your room. Never just lie there and feel sad or mad, because those feelings become like weights, holding you down, and they only get heavier, and you only get less likely to move them.

The Old of the community did not ever leave their special place, the House of the Old, where they were so well cared for and respected.