Quotes About Well-being

They say the level of civilization is proportionate to the degree of cleanliness of the skin. Assuming that man has a soul, it must, in all likelihood, be housed in the skin.

Nothing is more reassuring than recognizing the feet you are standing on as your own, knowing that this is my place, and I am well, and all the people I love are well.

if one keeps seeking revenge, there will be no end to violence. To avenge the Chalukya Emperor's invasion, the Kanchi Chakravarthy will invade Vatapi. The scions of the Chalukya dynasty will invade Kanchi again to seek revenge. Just like a tree growing from a seed and seed-bearing fruit growing on that tree, the cycle of evil in this world will be never-ending. Someone must forget and forgive for the sake of this world's well-being.

It didn't take a Harvard economist to figure out that it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper spending money on helping keep kids safe when they were younger than it was to put them in jail when they were older. That was the American way, though. Spend a million dollars rescuing some kid who's fallen down a well, but God forbid you spend a hundred bucks up front to cap the well so the kid never falls down it in the first place.

It might do you some good to remember that at the end of the day, no matter how smart that brain of yours is up there, it's your heart that needs looking after.

It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family's well-being - as much as 10 times more.

Man does not live by GNP alone.

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.

The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.

Evil habits, in which men indulge, are the chief cause of disease in the physical as well as the mental state.

To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.

Nobody is sicker than the man who is sick on his day off.

Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them.

There is a sense of decency that's like a barometer to a man's or a country's health.

It seems a strange fact that it is almost more important for us to be happy ourselves than to try to make other people happy. By being happy we confer untold benefits upon our fellow men.

even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.

Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing in addition to caring for man's well-being they were providing rights for themselves.

Regard ye the world as a man's body, which is afflicted with diverse ailments, and the recovery of which dependeth upon the harmonizing of all its component elements.

It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.