Quotes About Well-being

Cultivate the good. One can cultivate the good. If it were not possible, I would not ask you to do it. If this cultivation were to bring harm and suffering, I would not ask you to do it. But as this cultivation brings benefit and happiness, I say, cultivate the good.

May you live with ease, May you be happy, May you be free from pain.

The simple act of being completely attentive and present to another person is an act of love, and it fosters unshakeable well-being. It is happiness that isn't bound to a particular situation, happiness that can withstand change.

Whatever language we use use to describe healthy relationships, when we're in them, we feel nourished by them, in body as well as mind.

Science tells us that love not only diminishes the experience of physical pain but can make us—and our beloveds—healthier.

A lack of real love for ourselves is one of the most constricting, painful conditions we can know.

Love seems to open and expand us right down to the cellular level, while fear causes us to contract and withdraw into ourselves.

Evolutionary biologists tell us we have a "negativity bias" that makes our brains remember negative events more strongly than positive ones. So when we're feeling lost or discouraged, it can be very hard to conjure up memories and feelings of happiness and ease.

The simple act of being completely attentive & present to another person is an act of love, and it fosters unshakeable well-being.

Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else's success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known, invites us to celebrate for others.

Several performers have told me that they do the following brief lovingkindness meditation if they have stage fright: Standing in front of an audience, before they start acting, playing music, or reciting a poem, they send out wishes for the well-being of everyone in the room. 'When I do that,' one singer told me, 'I no longer have a sense of the audience as a group of hostile people out there waiting to judge me. I feel, okay, here we all are together.

At the same time rulers were exhorted to protect and promote the common good of society and the well-being of all of their subjects.

Americans were endangering their mental and physical health through overwork," and all in pursuit of the dollar. "Life is not for learning, nor is life for working," he ranted, "but learning and working are for life.

What is important is to see how we can best lead a meaningful everyday life, how we can bring about peace and harmony in our minds, how we can help contribute to society.

How you manage yourself as you deal with stuff in your life largely determines the quality of your life.

Take advantage of this great opportunity in your life to live it well, to be good, to have good works, and to influence other people for good.

We usually think that a strong economy leads to an increase in life satisfaction among the population. We found that's not the case in Scotland.

When the material, psychological and spiritual dimensions are brought into balance, life becomes whole, and this union brings feelings of comfort and security.

If your ambition comes at the price of an unbalanced life, that there's nothing else that gives you comfort but success, it's not worth it.

I think what's important is to first have your life and then do your job.

I don't want all that much. But I want to be fine. I want to live a simple life with many good moments and a lot of fun.

Always feeling rushed is no way for a prosperity-minded individual to live. The objective of life is not to get through it as fast as possible.

Sometimes the best cure for life's woes is a sense of humor.

The purpose of life is happiness. What else could it possibly be?