Quotes About Well-being

It's okay to succeed, to have good things, and to have loving relationships that work.

Many codependents are barely surviving, and most aren't getting their needs met.

Not acknowledging our feelings is what keeps us stuck and gives us stomachaches, headaches, and heartburn.

Here's an interesting phenomenon about gratitude: it's difficult to feel too bad when we're feeling grateful. Your mind has room for only one thought at a time. If you fill it with gratitude, there isn't room for negativity.

The love we give and receive will be enhanced by the love we give ourselves.

I do not deserve and will not tolerate abuse or constant mistreatment.

3. Stop looking for happiness in other people. Our source of happiness and well-being is not inside others; it's inside us. Learn to center ourselves in ourselves.

Today, I will take actions that appear appropriate. I will let go of the rest. I will strive for the balance between self-responsibility, responsibility to others, and letting go.

When you mourn for too long, you start to forget how to feel joy.

To quote a noted Jewish humorist, Sholom Aleichem: "First comes health. You can always hang yourself later." As

I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other's well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.

I think the truth is that finding ourselves brings more excitement and well-being than anything romance has to offer, and somewhere we know that.

Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture, in a greedy culture, in a culture that uses so much of the world's resources. How do men and women, boys and girls, live lives of compassion, justice and love? And I think that's the visionary challenge for feminism and all other progressive movements for social change.

What the world needs now is liberated men who have the qualities Silverstein cites, men who are 'empathetic and strong, autonomous and connected, responsible to self, to family and friends, to society, and capable of understanding how those responsibilities are, ultimately, inseparable.' Men need feminist thinking. It it the theory that supports their spiritual evolution and their shift away from the patriarchal model. Patriarchy is destroying the well-being of men, taking their lives daily.

A love ethic presupposes that everyone has the right to be free, to live fully and well.

With therapeutic help, I was able to see the term dysfunctional as useful description and not as an absolute negative judgment.

Self-love cannot flourish in isolation. It is no easy task to be self-loving.

The willingness to sacrifice is a necessary dimension of loving practice and living in community. None of us can have things our way all the time. Giving up something is one way we sustain a commitment to the collective well-being. Our willingness to make sacrifices reflects our awareness of interdependency.

without a core foundation of healthy self-esteem we can't practice self love.

While careers and making money remain important agendas, they never take precedence over valuing and nurturing human life and well-being.

Creating domestic bliss is especially useful for individuals living alone who are just learning to be self-loving. When we intentionally strive to make our homes places where we are ready to give and receive love, every object we place there enhances our well-being.

Taking responsibility means that we in the face of barriers we still have the capacity to invent our lives, to shape our destinies in ways that maximize our well-being. Every day we practice this shape shifting to cope with realities we cannot easily change.

Clearly, much of the violence in domestic life, both physical and verbal abuse, is linked to job misery. We can encourage friends and loved ones to move toward greater self-love by supporting them in any effort to leave work that assaults their well-being.

I turned my face to the sky and laughed because the things you enjoy can't hurt you.