Quotes About Well-being

In a group of studies Mikulincer showed that when we feel safely connected to others we understand ourselves better and like ourselves more.

When we feel generally secure, that is, we are comfortable with closeness and confident about depending on loved ones, we are better at seeking support

But it's not just whether or not we have close relationships in our lives—the quality of these relationships matters, too. Negative relationships undermine our health.

We need emotional attachments with a few irreplaceable others to be physically and mentally healthy — to survive.

We need validation from our loved ones. Researchers say that marital distress raises the risk for depression tenfold!

When we feel generally secure, that is, we are comfortable with closeness and confident about depending on loved ones, we are better at seeking support — and better at giving it.

Hundreds of studies now show that positive loving connections with others protect us from stress and help us cope better with life's challenges and traumas.

If we were to abuse our children, Social Services would show up at our doors. If we were to abuse our pets, the Humane Society would come to take us away. But there is no Creativity Patrol or Soul Police to intervene if we insist on starving our own souls.

All shall be well. I don't mean that life won't bring you tragedy. I only mean you will be well in spite of it. There's a place in you that is inviolate. You'll find your way there, when you need to. And you'll know then what I speak of.

All shall be well. I don't mean that life won't bring you tragedy. I only mean you will be well in spite of it. There's a place in you that is inviolate. You'll find your way there, when you need to. And you'll know then what I speak of.

The main thing is to stop struggling and nourish yourself. When you nourish yourself, your creative energy is renewed. You are able to pick up your lyre again and sing.

Carlos was probably somewhere warm, eating three meals a day, and sleeping in a real bed. That was the life

IF A CLIENT HAS A PHYSICAL SYMPTOM How long has she had it? How often does it occur? How much does it interfere with her daily life? Has she seen a doctor?

that you never let a client leave your office if you have any sense that she may do herself, or someone else, harm.

Did you know a child laughs an average of three hundred times a day, and an adult just three?

I don't want her to feel as if she's responsible for my happiness. Good lord, who would wish that on a child?

Normally, we worry about our own material well-being and our neighbor's souls; let us rather worry about our neighbor's material well-being and our own souls" (Rabbi Israel Salanter).

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life.

It's especially important to a couple's well-being and longevity if the husband has sufficiently separated from his parents and is able to prioritize his wife's happiness over his own mother's.20 Men who are too tied to their own parents may give their parents too much say over how to conduct their households.

Why not just go with it? Just walk the dog and send the tweets and eat the scones and play with the hamsters and ride the bicycles and watch the sunsets and stream the movies and never worry about any of it? I didn't know it could be that easy. I didn't know that until just now. That sounds good to me. I think I might be able to do that. Who couldn't do that? It would take somebody mentally ill not to do that, and I'm not mentally ill.

This approach is not about acquiring more self-discipline or willpower. It's about personally discovering what nourishes you, what feeds you, and ultimately what makes your life extraordinary.

We need to be able to get wired up without overheating, and disconnect without going cold.

In particular, he named three kinds of troubles that could beset a person with a nervous temperament: poor weather, isolation or idleness, and stressful events.