Quotes About Well-being

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living pleasantly.

Non aspetti il giovane a filosofare, né il vecchio di filosofare si stanchi: nessuno è troppo giovane o troppo vecchio per la salute dell'anima.

Il massimo bene è la prudenza. Per questo la prudenza è anche più pregevole della filosofia, e da essa hanno origine anche tutte le altre virtù, perché insegna come non è possibile una vita felice che non sia una vita saggia, bella e giusta, e non è possibile una vita saggia, bella e giusta che non sia felice. Le virtù sono infatti connaturate alla vita felice e la vita felice è da esse inseparabile.

De todos os meios que são procurados pela sabedoria para assegurar a felicidade durante toda a vida, de longe o mais importante é a aquisição de amigos.

Quando o prazer está presente, desde que seja ininterrupto, não há dor nem do corpo, nem da mente, nem de ambos ao mesmo tempo

The study suggests that weight problems could cancel out life-extending benefits of medical advances in the coming decades.

Because 'achievers' have to be 'good,' they tend to keep their feelings under careful control, and they often suffer from ulcers or high blood pressure.

Few people consider that something as simple as an ill-fitted horseshoe could break a horse as quickly as overburdening it or failing to provide it with adequate rest or fodder.

Hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!

You owe it to you to put yourself first. When you take care of yourself, take the time to see yourself, and get comfortable with being you, only then can you start to take care of other people, see other people, and be comfortable with other people.

The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play.

I like exercise. I like a healthy body.

Para ser felices debemos deshacernos de nuestros prejuicios, poseer virtudes, gozar de una buena salud, tener inclinaciones y pasiones, porque pobres de aquellos que pierden la capacidad de tener ilusiones.

People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well.

Too many overweight teenage girls are being pressurised by their families to lose weight when what they in fact need is better nourishment (which would almost certainly help them lose weight along the way).

If you can cancel a child's hunger during those first three years - from conception to toddlerdom -you create possibilities that stretch decades into the future. If not, the consequences can last for generations.

One of the commonest ways our eating goes wrong is that we consistently choose foods that offer immediate satiation in the belly rather than longer lasting satiety.

Our difficulty is not just that we haven't learned to cook and grow food, however important that is; it's that we haven't learned to eat in ways that support health and happiness

Up until the age of three, children have a remarkable ability to stop eating when they are full.

Feeding children is an immense responsibility.

Avoid 'distracting' meals such as TV dinners and computer lunches. replace the biscuit jar with a fruit bowl. Repackage food into smaller containers. Order half-size portions in restaurants. Replace short wide glasses with tall narrow ones. And get smaller plates.

Indulgence makes a child fat. Restriction makes a child fat and unhappy.

If you can improve the eating, the rest of life gets a little better too.

When other life factors were considered, the people who were happiest were those who were most satisfied with their household finances, and the next happiest were those who had good health. Marriage came in third.