Quotes About Well-being

As long as I'm rested, as long as I'm not overstimulated, as long as I can space out my day, I can count on my brain reasonably cooperating with me.

After years of investigating aging populations, researchers' answer to the question of how much is not much. If all you do is walk several times a week, your brain will benefit. Even

what does 'functioning normally' mean?" I asked. "Being able to face the past. Having a normal sex life. Not lying awake all night in fits of anxiety." "Oh. Are most people able to face the past and have normal sex lives?" "Yes, as a matter of fact, I think they are," she said. "Anyway, if anyone is, it should be me. Deep down I have a talent for well-being. I can feel it." I nodded. I thought she had it, too, a talent for well-being.

Bisogna che gli uomini possano essere felici. Ogni cosa ha un senso solo perché gli uomini siano felici. Non è solo per questo che le cose hanno un senso?

The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid erosion, pollution, environmental degradation, and resource waste. Any rational food-production system will emphasize the well-being of the soil-air-water biosphere, the creatures which inhabit it, and the human beings who depend upon it.

Besides, it's good to cry. Gets rid of all those bad feelings, takes away some of the despair.

We are social creatures, and what others do affects us. It affects our emotions, and emotions are drivers of our health.

If you have to constantly alter your natural mental state to survive a situation, doesn't it follow that the situation is toxic?

Part of being a community is being part of the governing body. Taking responsibility for its actions and helping to make choices the benefit all the citizenry. Taking responsibility for its well-being, just as you do when you're part of a family.

To an extent that has surprised us and the rest of the scientific community, telomeres do not simply carry out the commands issued by your genetic code. Your telomeres, it turns out, are listening to you. They absorb the instructions you give them. The way you live can, in effect, tell your telomeres to speed up the process of cellular aging. But it can also do the opposite.

One study has found that people who tend to focus their minds more on what they are currently doing have longer telomeres than people whose minds tend to wander more.5 Other studies find that taking a class that offers training in mindfulness or meditation is linked to improved telomere maintenance.6

The iPhone mind-wandering study showed that when people are not thinking about what they're doing, they're just not as happy as when they're engaged. As

People just want to be happy, she thought.

I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

Dress loose,take a great deal of exercise ,and be particular about your diet and sleep sound enough,the body has a great effect on the mind.

A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.

Given belief in God, a good digestion and a mind in working order life's still a thing to be grateful for.

And then I say to myself that we should believe in that which we felt when we were strong and happy rather than in that which we feel when we are sick and sad. Do you not think, Judith, that one is more truly oneself in times of joy than in times of sorrow?

Folks don't fall from laughter to fear in that way when they're nervously strong, and nerves take their toll of the body in the end.

I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high.

What ensued will go down in the record of my heart as one of those rare times in life when you finally rest—when you put down the burden of striving and a sense of well-being spreads like honey into every corner of your consciousness. There was nowhere else to go, nothing to do, no one to be—just now, just this precious day, these shared breaths with a friend.

The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says.

Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy.

She is so relieved to know that he's better and is finally getting the sleep he needs and she misses him.