Quotes About Well-being

The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars expended on the Grant Study points to a straightforward five-word conclusion: Happiness is love. Full stop.

A strong egoism is a protection against disease, but in the last resort we must begin to love in order that we may not fall ill, and must fall ill if, in consequence of frustration, we cannot love.

The love and laughter are what you need most in your life. They'll fill out all the potholes in the road.

Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy.

Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.

I live for being with the people I love and to live as happily as possible.

I like things pretty close around me. I like to know that my house is safe, that the people and animals I love are well and happy. I like to feel as peaceful as possible.

Bottom line: If you love yourself, it will all work out.

There is good government when those who are near are made happy, and when those who are afar are attracted.

Llega un momento en el que estar enfadado no es más que un mal hábito, como fumar, que te va envenenando sin que te des cuenta.

At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it.

A woman I knew just drowned herself The well was deep and muddy She was just shaking off futility Or punishing somebody My friends were calling up all day yesterday All emotions and abstractions It seems we all live so close to that line and so far from satisfaction

Fast Action Plan: Stop eating fast food. On all packaged foods from the supermarket, check the ingredients list for "partially hydrogenated" or "hydrogenated" oils. If either of those is listed, don't eat it. Look in particular at margarines, cookies, cakes, pastries, doughnuts, and, as mentioned, fast food.

We outsource the problem of sanity. People remain mentally healthy not merely because of the integrity of their own minds, but because they are constantly being reminded how to think, act, and speak by those around them.

Treat yourself like you would someone you're responsible for helping.

The poor and stressed always die first, and in greater numbers. They are also much more susceptible to non- infectious diseases, such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease.

human health is a matter of moral action, perhaps more than it is a matter of anything else

To treat yourself as if you were someone you are responsible for helping is, instead, to consider what would be truly good for you. This is not "what you want." It is also not "what would make you happy.

MAKE FRIENDS WITH PEOPLE WHO WANT THE BEST FOR YOU

Happy" is by no means synonymous with "good.

People are better at filling and properly administering prescription medication to their pets than to themselves.

Anxiety and depression cannot be easily treated if the sufferer has unpredictable daily routines.

Self-love is the only antidote to the chaos of existence. And if you don't love and care for yourself and your own needs, you will cause unnecessary suffering both for yourself and others.

How much leisure, enjoyment, and reward do you require, so that you feel like more than a beast of burden?