Quotes About Well-being

Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves.

I am very concerned about the environment and psychological health of this beautiful planet.

Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically.

I would never encourage anyone to adopt a contractive posture. It's not good for you physically. It's not good for you psychologically.

I have started seeing a psychologist to try to help me think positively.

Not many people know this, but at the start of the Premier League season I started seeing a psychologist, because I could do everything on the field, but mentally I was empty.

I want to be a psychologist.

One of my key realizations about happiness, and a point oddly under-emphasized by positive psychologists, given its emphasis in popular culture, is that outer order contributes to inner calm. More than it should.

My book 'Things Get Better' has normalised the idea that it's OK to fail and it's OK to seek professional help from psychologists.

Shift work, where the body clock is continuously changed, is really deleterious on many levels - from psychology to physiology.

What took some time for me to figure out was how to have a life outside my career, to find a way to be inclusive rather than exclusive. It came only after years of psychotherapy and deep soul-searching.

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

In general, I feel very happy with how I got to have time on my own at least a little bit outside of the public eye.

You see what it is for your mental health to be in the public eye.

Public health and safety are my highest priorities.

Public health research has saved countless lives in the past.

Public safety is a public health issue.

There is a time and place for publicity, but to stay a sane person, you must have a personal life.

'Comfy,' that's one of the worst words! I just picture a woman feeling bad, with a big bottle of alcohol, really puffy. It's really depressing, but she likes her life because she has comfortable clogs.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

I like my life to be pure and clean and organised, and I like to have had eight hours' sleep a night. I honestly don't think I'd be as successful if I was a party animal. Because I don't think my personality would be as focused and open as it is.

When you act, you really have to give all of yourself, and if you're doing that purely for money, it's not healthy.

I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.

My goals as governor are to help all North Carolinians be better educated, healthier and have more money in their pockets so that they can live more abundant, purposeful lives.