Quotes About Well-being

Retirement should be a happier time, conditioned upon not being ill.

We may get a paycheck, but over time what we sense is the dying of our souls.

Health is not just the absence of a disease. It's an inner joyfulness that should be ours all the time; a state of positive well-being.

Time And well being are two valuable belongings that we do not acknowledge and respect till they've been depleted.

It's really important to take time for yourself because if you don't know what it is like to be a real person and spend time with a sense of normality, how can you play normal people in films?

Markets, and the way they operate can't be frozen in time and place. A dynamic economy that is growing and increasing material well-being for a large number of people have to change over time.

I'm having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time.

When I'm depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I'm happy. The only time I don't eat is if I am terribly nervous.

No one needs to know that you've shut the world out and are meditating as you stroll down the street. Twenty minutes to a half-hour every day is a good amount of time to restore a sense of serenity.

Nap time over. Gonna go be active. Do it people!!! In the end all you have is your health.

Everybody's vaguely miserable sometimes...and most people are vaguely miserable most of the time. The trick is to scrap your way from the most-of-the-time to the some-of-the-time category.

The quickest way to be a little bit happier and more engaged in your job is to spend some time thinking about developing closer friendships.

The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.

Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.

I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.

With technology and over-scheduling, we are forgetting to invest time in simple connective moments with others.

There's never a bad time to put earplugs in. They're the kind of thing you can reject as a bit lame, but somebody told me to do start wearing earplugs and it turned out to be great advice.

A full belly is of little worth where the mind is starved, and the heart.

The cost of not caring for the mentally ill dwarfs the cost of caring.

when you start to feel a little sad, anxious, or irritable it's not the mood that does the damage but how you react to it. • the effort of trying to free yourself from a bad mood or bout of unhappiness – of working out why you're unhappy and what you can do about it – often makes things worse. It's like being trapped in quicksand – the more you struggle to be free, the deeper you sink.

Despite some initial skepticism about what our colleagues and patients might say if we suggested we were considering meditation as a preventive approach to depression, we decided to take a closer look. We soon discovered that the combination of Western cognitive science and Eastern practices was just what is needed to break the cycle of recurrent depression, in which we tend to go over and over what went wrong or how things are not the way we want them to be.

I only put down on paper what works for me, and since I started out as a human train wreck, the ways I've learned to be happy also work for others.

according to some medical psychologists, it's physiologically impossible for your mind to stay locked in a war of control when you're engaging its ability to generate compassion and appreciation.

research on meditation does indicate that staying in a compassionate mode toward one's self removes brain activity from zones that trigger flight, fight, and frenzied eating.