Quotes About Well-being

For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Watch it...people who keep things inside them develop all sorts of disease...all that emotional gunk's got to find an outlet. Angry people develop cysts; stubborn people get arthritis; resentful people die of cancer.

Carry your baby more. The more you hold him (even when he's not crying), the less likely he is to cry. In one study, researchers found that a two-hour increase in carrying time per day resulted in a 42 percent decrease in crying

It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.

Excessive happiness! I never knew there was such a disorder. I didn't know you could be too happy.

I found that life was a continual struggle for most of us-and this on a plane not much above that of the struggle of wild animals-and that society dismissed this obvious truth as a negligible factor in determining human conduct as well as our mental and physical well-being. I began to see that this economic battle persisted even in the midst of an exhaustless plenty, and that most humans lived and died trying to succeed in a material sense, in short, to reach the goal of a triumphant animalism.

I am happiest when I am idle. I could live for months without performing any kind of labor, and at the expiration of that time I should feel fresh and vigorous enough to go right on in the same way for numerous more months.

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

This discipline helps us work on mindfulness—living in the present as opposed to the past or future—which studies consistently find leads us to be happier people. But it also helps us to make the decisions that truly expose our best selves.

social comparison lowers our happiness.

You need strong human connections to help you get on the second curve and flourish.

No matter how introverted you are, you cannot expect to thrive into old age without healthy, intimate relationships.

Robert Waldinger, popularized the study even more with a viral TED Talk, "What Makes a Good Life?

researchers have long found that social comparison lowers our happiness.[29] But you hardly need a study to tell you that—just spend a few hours browsing Instagram and see how bad you feel about yourself. This is because you are comparing your success with your perception of others' success, as depicted in information of dubious accuracy. Nothing good comes of this.

This is just an example of the age-old debate over two kinds of happiness that scholars refer to as hedonia and eudaimonia. Hedonia is about feeling good; eudaimonia is about living a purpose-filled life. In truth, we need both. Hedonia without eudaimonia devolves into empty pleasure; eudaimonia without hedonia can become dry.

The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge.

People can't work and have the quality of life they deserve if they aren't healthy.

I don't chase money and I need a place where I'll have a good quality of life.

I think it's important for the kids to spend quality time with their parents, and to see their parents happy and loving life, even if it so happens that they live apart. That's a lot better than having them stay together and be miserable.

Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.

Every education law should be based around the question, 'Is this good for children?' And it's not.