Quotes About Well-being

If a gene could build a brain that could tell when copies of itself were sitting in another animal's gonads, it would make the brain enjoy the other animal's well-being, and make it act in ways that increased that other animal's well-being.

Yet it would be mad to suppose that Sally is not better off, and positively depraved to conclude that one may as well not try to improve Seema's life because it might improve her neighbors' lives even more and leave her no happier.

Handwashing, midwifery, mosquito control, and especially the protection of drinking water by public sewerage and chlorinated tap water would come to save billions of lives.

The fickle effects of inequality on well-being bring up another common confusion in these discussions: the conflation of inequality with unfairness

And countries that combine free markets with more taxation, social spending, and regulation than the United States (such as Canada, New Zealand, and Western Europe) turn out to be not grim dystopias but rather pleasant places to live, and they trounce the United States in every measure of human flourishing, including crime, life expectancy, infant mortality, education, and happiness.

They laid that foundation in what we now call humanism, which privileges the well-being of individual men, women, and children over the glory of the tribe, race, nation, or religion.

As the decades pass, depressed people are more likely to die of suicide and other causes, so the old people who remain in a sample are the mentally healthier ones, making it seem as if everyone who was born long ago is mentally healthier.

Love - is when you wish all the best to the people you love, when you put their interests and well-being above their own. Always.

Love isn't supposed to torment you. If it does, there's probably something wrong.

It is safe to be me. I love life. I am always safe and secure. I move forward in life with joy and ease. All is well in my world.

Being loved keeps you young.

Love is the only thing that keeps me sane.

If people would treat themselves with the same kind of love they give to their friends, that would be such a great gift we could give ourselves.

The healing power of love and relationships has been documented in an increasing number of well-designed scientific studies involving hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world.

If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.

The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.

Turns out that loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself, and as you improve yourself, your improve your world.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

Love knows no pain, no sacrifice is too much for it; it is an absolute one-pointed state of mind toward the well-being of the other person who is called lover or beloved.

The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement.

Whether I'm stressed out or angry or happy or depressed - however I feel, I say "I love my life," no matter what. That usually keeps me centered.

Any town that doesn't have sidewalks doesn't love its children.

The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization

Happiness depends on ourselves.