Quotes About Well-being

Some of us are infinitely better at being miserable than happy," he said gently. "We're good at it, and proud of it, and we get better and better at it, and we simply don't know what it means to be happy.

I told myself anything I needed to keep my sanity.

You're only ever as happy as your least happy child?' 

She wasn't always angry. She had lots of good days.

Who said, 'You're only ever as happy as your least happy child?' 

As affluence and urbanization rise in a society, rates of depression and suicide tend to go up rather than down.

in keeping with something called self-determination theory, which holds that human beings need three basic things in order to be content: they need to feel competent at what they do; they need to feel authentic in their lives; and they need to feel connected to others.

The economic and marketing forces of modern society have engineered an environment… that maximize[s] consumption at the long-term cost of well-being

When people are actively engaged in a cause their lives have more purpose… with a resulting improvement in mental health

The findings are in keeping with something called self-determination theory, which holds that human beings need three basic things in order to be content: they need to feel competent at what they do; they need to feel authentic in their lives; and they need to feel connected to others. These values are considered "intrinsic" to human happiness and far outweigh "extrinsic" values such as beauty, money, and status. Bluntly

The economic and marketing forces of modern society have engineered an environment… that maximize[s] consumption at the long-term cost of well-being," a study in the Journal of Affective Disorders concluded in 2012. "In effect, humans have dragged a body with a long hominid history into an overfed, malnourished, sedentary, sunlight-deficient, sleep-deprived, competitive, inequitable, and socially-isolating environment with dire consequences.

The findings are in keeping with something called self-determination theory, which holds that human beings need three basic things in order to be content: they need to feel competent at what they do; they need to feel authentic in their lives; and they need to feel connected to others. These values are considered "intrinsic" to human happiness and far outweigh "extrinsic" values such as beauty, money, and status.

In effect, humans have dragged a body with a long hominid history into an overfed, malnourished, sedentary, sunlight-deficient, sleep-deprived, competitive, inequitable, and socially-isolating environment with dire consequences.

humans have dragged a body with a long hominid history into an overfed, malnourished, sedentary, sunlight-deficient, sleep-deprived, competitive, inequitable, and socially-isolating environment with dire consequences." The

your name repeats itself mantra-like in my head. At night I fall asleep clinging to the hope that you are happy and well...

Is there such a thing as being too happy?

I started thinking about life insurance and how nice it would be if you could get insurance that your life would be happy, and that everyone you knew could be happy, and they could all do what they really wanted to do, and they could all find the people they wanted to find.

Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn't go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.

With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.

Cultivation of positive emotions, including self-love and self-respect, strengthens our inner resources and opens us to a broader range of thoughts and actions.

The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from our own happiness.

Loving kindness is the practice of offering to oneself and others wishes to be happy, peaceful, healthy, strong

May I be safe. May I be happy. May I be healthy. May I live with ease.

We nurture our sense of connection with the larger whole, noticing that the whole is only as healthy as its smallest part.