Quotes About Well-being

I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks.

I surround myself with good people who make me feel great and give me positive energy.

I surround myself with positive, happy people. And I always try to balance things that I have to do with things that I want to do.

He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.

Boundary confusion is one of the foundation blocks upon which a dysfunctional, codependent personality is developed.

Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a bit fat mess every time.

is your home a good housemate? (Happy Starts at Home: Getting the Life You Want by Changing the Space You've Got, Rebecca West)

How can someone be wise who isn't even remotely happy?

OUR STATE OF mind plays a major role in our day-to-day experiences as well as our physical and mental well-being. If a person has a calm and stable mind, this influences his or her attitude and behaviour in relation to others. In other words, if someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.

Muchos humanos dicen que les gusta el invierno, pero lo que realmente les gusta es poderse sentir protegidos frente a él. Para ellos la alimentación no supone ningún problema en invierno. Tienen fuegos y ropa de abrigo. El invierno no puede hacerles daño y, por tanto, aumenta su sensación de bienestar y seguridad. Para los pájaros y los animales, al igual que para las personas pobres, el invierno es otra historia.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

Fortunately, there is an inviolable law in our emotional environment that goes something like this: Our current level of stress will be exactly that of our tolerance to stress.

In low moods we lose our perspective and everything seems urgent.

Most people have it backward. When they are feeling down, they roll up their sleeves and get to work. They take their low moods very seriously and try to figure out and analyze what's wrong. They try to force themselves out of their low state, which tends to compound the problem rather than solve it.

I'm the first to admit that I always prefer approval over disapproval. It feels better and it's certainly easier to deal with. The more content I've become, however, the less I depend on it for my sense of well-being.

Regardless of who you are or what you do, however, remember that nothing is more important than your own sense of happiness and inner peace and that of your loved ones. If you're obsessed with getting everything done, you'll never have a sense of well-being!

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults) has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point. [...] Somebody else must be responsible for my well-being, and somebody else must be to blame if I am hurt. Is it a similar infantilism that really lies behind the 'need' for a God?

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The end of economic growth does not necessarily mean we've reached the end of qualitative improvements in human life.

Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong.

the waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended.

Happiness is like the pox. Catch it too soon, and it wrecks your constitution

He said that there were three preconditions for happiness — stupidity, selfishness and good health

No proper life could be made from the pursuit of blinding pleasure followed by limp exhaustion.