Quotes About Well-being

Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.

I wish to you, joy and happiness. But above all this, I wish you love

If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life.

If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.

If I don't love myself, I won't survive.

The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others.

I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love.

To love ourselves is to act respectfully toward ourselves, to enjoy our own company when in solitude, to honor our limits and speak our truths.

For I will only your well-being, and whatever I give, I give it so that you may reach the goal for which I created you. — Our Lord to St. Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue It is easy to see God's hand in the good things of our lives, but it is often a struggle to see it in the difficult. How do these words of Our Lord to St. Catherine of Siena give me deeper insight? In what way does this help me to reexamine past events or a current situation?

I feel underslept but overjoyed. Nothing feels so good as this.

What if I like watching television? What if I don't want to do much else other than read a book?... What if I'm tired when I get home? What if I don't fill my days with frenetic activity?" "But one day you might wish you had

Who was it who had said you were only as happy as your unhappiest child?

But if we don't have faith that he can feel better, even get better, then how is he supposed to keep the faith that good things might happen?" Nathan

Don't think of me too often. I don't want to think of you getting all maudlin. Just live well. Just live.

What if I like watching television? What if I don't want to do much else other than read a book?' My

Don't think of me too often. I don't want to think of you getting all maudlin. Just live well.

Depression, we had learned in the group, loves a vacuum. Far better to be doing, or at least planning. Sometimes the illusion of happiness could inadvertently create it.

Research shows that when we count three blessings a day, we get a measurable boost in happiness that uplifts and energizes us. It's also physiologically impossible to be stressed and thankful at the same time.

To run a successful organization," I say, "you must learn to manage people's energy, including your own.

Seek joyfulness when you can, for seeking joy leads to an auspicious atmosphere.

conflicts in relationships—having an annoying office mate or room-mate, or having chronic conflict with your spouse—is one of the surest ways to reduce your happiness. You never adapt to interpersonal conflict;45 it damages every day, even days when you don't see the other person but ruminate about the conflict nonetheless.

Even if we take Nietzsche figuratively (which he would have much preferred anyway), fifty years of research on stress shows that stressors are generally bad for people,3 contributing to depression, anxiety disorders, and heart disease.