Quotes About Well-being

Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson's research into these questions—distilled in their book The Spirit Level

It's worth repeating. Being deeply lonely seemed to cause as much stress as being punched by a stranger.

Stress isn't something imposed on us. It's something we impose on ourselves." Stress is a feeling. Stress is a series of thoughts. If you just learn how to think differently—to quiet down your rattling thoughts—your stress will melt away. So you just need to learn to meditate. Your stress comes from a failure to be mindful.

Nearly half of all zoos in the U.S. now admit to giving psychiatric drugs to their animals,

Allen Barbour, an internist at Stanford University, had said that depression isn't a disease; depression is a normal response to abnormal life experiences.

The purpose of life is to be happy.

Being too consumed in fear all the time will result in poor quality of life

Do not get so concerned with making a living that you forget to make a life.

You will never enjoy life if you do not enjoy yourself.

I promote a healthy lifestyle.

What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind.

There is a difference between standard of living and quality of life. Quality of life is more important.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

When you stop being afraid you feel good

Man's health and well-being depends upon, among many things, the proper functioning of the myriad proteins that participate in the intricate synergisms of living systems.

This is the line of life, this is the line of growth, and this is the line of well-being in India - to follow the track of religion.

It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.

destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.

Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means - the bottom line - then for me it's if the family is healthy and happy.

Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a pet? I doubt it.

Your habits will determine your quality of life.

Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.

All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.

Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.