Quotes About Well-being

51. Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.

Will either passengers, or patients, find fault and complain, either the one if they be well carried, or the others if well cured? Do they take care for any more than this; the one, that their shipmaster may bring them safe to land, and the other, that their physician may effect their recovery?

But we have to sleep sometime.… Agreed. But nature set a limit on that—as it did on eating and drinking. And you're over the limit. You've had more than enough of that. But not of working. There you're still below your quota.

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

The aim of a ship's captain is a successful voyage; a doctor's, health; a general's, victory. So the aim of our ideal statesman is the citizens' happy life--that is, a life secure in wealth, rich in resources, abundant in renown, and honorable in its moral character. That is the task which I wish him to accomplish--the greatest and best that any man can have.

Sanity is a valuable possesion; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.

Sanity is a valuable possession.

It is the strict adherence to daily routine that tends towards the maintenance of good morale and the preservation of sanity," he says out loud.

God be with you is not an unmixed blessing.

Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money.

What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?

Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts... it flushes the self-pity out of our systems.

Keep a gratitude journal. Write down at least three things a day you are either thankful for, made you smile or genuinely inspired you.

What am I grateful for? Aside from my own great life, you mean? I'm just grateful that my wife, and daughter, and dogs are all healthy.

Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.

No kid should be getting three or four hours of homework a night. There's no breathing time, there's no family time, there are just extracurriculars and homework and then go to bed.

While 9-5 and what happens on the job is important, what happens from 5-9, off the job, is infinitely more important.

I've been fortunate. I've had no residual effects whatsoever. I got out just in time.

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

Well, I'm getting happier all the time, which is very nice.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.