Quotes About Well-being

the dissatisfaction that comes with social comparison can be fixed by teaching people to care less about status.

The research that my colleagues and I have done suggests that, not surprisingly, maximizers are prime candidates for depression.

Whereas maximizers might do better objectively than satisficers, they tend to do worse subjectively.

Both books point out how the growth of material affluence has not brought with it an increase in subjective well-being. But they go further. Both books argue that we are actually experiencing a fairly significant decrease in well-being.

Happy people have the ability to distract themselves and move on, whereas unhappy people get stuck ruminating and make themselves more and more miserable.

But if money doesn´t do it for people, what does? What seems to be the most important factor in providing happiness is close social relations. People who are married, who have good friends and who are close to their families are happier than those who are not. Being connected to other seems to be much more important to subjective well-being than being rich.

What seems likely to me is that the causality works both ways: happy people attract other to them, and being with others makes people happy.

But if we don't figure out the way the world works and is, and if we don't live in harmony with it, we will be miserable and no better off than the dumb animals.

Money can't buy happiness, but it allows one to endured unhappiness in relative comfort.

May you have long days and pleasant nights.

The success of big business and the well-being of the world have never been more closely linked. Global issues cannot be removed from the business world because business has only one world in which to operate. Businesses cannot succeed in societies that fail. —JORMA OLLILA, CHAIRMAN AND CEO, NOKIA

A nation's well-being, as well as its ability to compete, is conditioned by a single, pervasive cultural characteristic: the level of trust inherent in the society.

We will never be truly healthy, satisfied, or fulfilled if we live apart and alienated from the environment from which we evolved.

Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas of life.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance

Perhaps the highest way to bring balance to life is the family.

It deals with things like building relationships, writing a personal mission statement, long-range planning, exercising, preventive maintenance, preparation—all those things we know we need to do, but somehow seldom get around to doing, because they aren't urgent.

Sometimes the most proactive thing we can do is to be happy, just to genuinely smile.

your happiness depends on (1) genetics, (2) circumstances, and (3) things you can control.

Effectiveness lies in the balance. Excessive focus on P results in ruined health, worn-out machines, depleted bank accounts, and broken relationships. Too much focus on PC is like a person who runs three or four hours a day, bragging about the extra ten years of life it creates, unaware he's spending them running. Or a person endlessly going to school, never producing, living on other people's golden eggs—the eternal student syndrome.

Effectiveness lies in the balance. Excessive focus on P results in ruined health, worn-out machines, depleted bank accounts, and broken relationships.

it's psychological.

many of us find that increasing our speed only makes things worse.