Quotes About Well-being

happiness formula:" H = S + C + V The level of happiness that you actually experience (H) is determined by your biological set point (S) plus the conditions of your life (C) plus the voluntary activities (V) you do. 34

This is what we mean when we talk about safetyism. Safety is good, of course, and keeping others safe from harm is virtuous

Emotional reasoning is among the most common of all cognitive distortions; most people would be happier and more effective if they did less of it.

We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.

Happiness comes from between. It comes from getting the right relationships between yourself and others, yourself and your work, and yourself and something larger than yourself. Once

People who report the greatest interest in attaining money, fame, or beauty are consistently found to be less happy, and even less healthy, than those who pursue less materialistic goals.

The Care/harm foundation

While many propositions are untrue, in order to be classified as a Great Untruth, an idea must meet three criteria: It contradicts ancient wisdom (ideas found widely in the wisdom literatures of many cultures). It contradicts modern psychological research on well-being. It harms the individuals and communities who embrace it.

Words are inadequate to describe the emotion aroused by the prolonged movement in unison that drilling involved. A sense of pervasive well-being is what I recall; more specifically, a strange sense of personal enlargement; a sort of swelling out, becoming bigger than life, thanks to participation in collective ritual.1

Literally and figuratively. Balance is important to you

how aging equips us to be happier and kinder, even as our bodies get frailer. I'll introduce social thinkers and reformers who are exploring and mapping a whole new stage of adult development.

This kind of short-term state of mind is called affective happiness; it relates to affect, our momentary emotions.

if money does not necessarily increase life satisfaction, what does?

Everywhere that I have studied happiness some very simple patterns hold: a stable marriage, good health, and enough (but not too much) income are good for happiness. Unemployment, divorce, and economic instability are terrible for happiness—everywhere that happiness is studied.

Deeper satisfaction comes not from feeling good, he taught, but from doing good: from cultivating and maintaining virtuous habits that balance one's own life and create and deepen ties with others.

The fact that I have these people whom I'm emotionally and spiritually accountable to really helps prevent that. I tell them what's going on in my life, and they tell me, and I feel like

increases in the suicide rate and in incidence of mental illness.

becoming better off economically seemed to make people less satisfied.

richer people were happier than poorer people, but getting richer didn't make a country happier.

The happiness differences between rich and poor countries that one might expect on the basis of within-country differences by economic status are not borne out by the international data," Easterlin

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.

Life expectancy in the UK in 1900 was forty-seven years for men, fifty for women, and in 2017, seventy-nine years for men and eighty-three for women, an increase of between two and three extra years in every decade. We are, quite simply, better off, better-informed, healthier and freer than any previous generation.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

anger you have locked up in you, and that's healthy. I just think you could be a little more judicious