Quotes About Well-being

The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.

Since mentally healthy human beings must grow, and since giving up or loss of the old self is an integral part of the process of mental and spiritual growth, depression is a normal and basically healthy phenomenon. It becomes abnormal or unhealthy only when something interferes with the giving-up process, with the result that the depression is prolonged and cannot be resolved by completion of the

It has been further suggested that the absence of love is the major cause of mental illness and that the presence of love is consequently the essential healing element in psychotherapy. This

It may sound strange to laymen, but psychotherapists are familiar with the fact that people are routinely terrified by mental health.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness. Since most of us have this tendency to a greater or lesser degree, most of us are mentally ill to a greater or lesser degree, lacking complete mental health.

This feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when one considers oneself valuable one will take care of oneself in all ways that are necessary. Self-discipline is self-caring.

Portando que se devia admitir como normal e exemplar o desequilíbrio das faculdades.

Men desire novelty to such an extent that those who are doing well wish for a change as much as those who are doing badly.

If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.

Maybe if you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.

We need, then, to protect a time and a place for timeless time, and to remind ourselves continually that this is not self-indulgent but rather crucial to intellectual work. If we don't find timeless time, there is evidence that not only our work but also our brains will suffer.

Gottman has found, in fact, that the presence of contempt in a marriage can even predict such things as how many colds a husband or a wife gets; in other words, having someone you love express contempt toward you is so stressful that it begins to affect the functioning of your immune system.

Graham states, "Because average country income levels do not matter to happiness, but relative distances from the average do, the poor Honduran is happier because their distance from mean income is smaller." And in Honduras, the poor are much closer in wealth to the middle class than the poor are in Chile, so they feel better off.

But this same dilemma comes up again and again in our own lives, and often we don't choose so wisely. The inverted-U curve reminds us that there is a point at which money and resources stop making our lives better and start making them worse.

having someone you love express contempt toward you is so stressful that it begins to affect the functioning of your immune system.

Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. Its a balance.

The measure of success is not by opulence but by happiness

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy and the make the most of where you are.

The idea that "work" competes with "life" ignores that "life" is actually the intersection and interaction of four major domains: work, home, community, and the private self.

Success becomes worthwhile if it fills your heart with happiness and not with stress.

If a goal is only success oriented and not happiness oriented, then it will fill your life with stress, anxiety, and frustration.

True success is the soundness of being.

Happiness attracts success. Happy people perform at a much higher level with less burnout, greater productivity, and more resilience. You can't win being unhappy.

Avoid making important or long-term decisions when you are fatigued mentally, emotionally or physically.