Quotes About Well-being

Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind for yourself.

Every person should decide for himself how happy, or unhappy, our society might be.

Negative emotions—especially fear—can hamper productive brain functioning. To promote positive feelings, especially during highly stressful times, interact directly with someone you like at least every four to six hours. In environments where people are in physical contact with people they trust, brain functioning hums.

10-percentage-point increase in broadband penetration produces the same lift in the population's subjective well-being as a 2.89% increase in GDP per capita

Give less of a fuck. There's a lot of talk from well-adjusted people on the other side of menopause about how they care a lot less about a lot more things than they did before. I believe this is often a survival skill picked up in perimenopause, one that likely kept them from yelling at other people and helped them carve out the time, space, and energy to care for themselves, often after a process of figuring out they gave way too many fucks to adequately deal with any of this.

Having a bunch of arghful or superdemanding life stuff, all while our biochemistry is flying up and down like a haunted elevator or radically changing to a kind of hormonal makeup we haven't had for more than a week at a time since we were kids—no shit that can have an impact on our mental health.

You see, things being good has nothing to do with how you feel outside, it is all to do with how you are inside.

At the age of 19 I made a choice not to read anything that's written about me. I just don't touch it because it's not good for you.

There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed.

The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.

I wrote 'A Mindful Nation' to promote the values of slowing down, taking care of ourselves, being kind, and helping each other. It seems to me that if we embrace these values individually, it will benefit us collectively. And our country will be a little bit better off as a result.

Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.

Yeah, I feel good. Good about my game and my life.

A year or so ago I went through all the people in my life and asked myself: does this person inspire me, genuinely love me and support me unconditionally? I wanted nothing but positive influences in my life.

We probably haven't seen the variety and diversity of threats to Americans' safety and well-being and our national security in a long, long time. Some have said it almost makes you yearn for the Cold War days when you knew who the bad guys were and who the good guys were, and there was a wall dividing us.

No, I'm not a vegetarian. I do eat that way. I actually eat vegan quite a lot. I feel better when I eat that way, and I think there's been a lot of proof that's come up over the last however many years, that you can't deny, I don't think, that meat or dairy aren't all that good for us.

I believe that you can, by taking some simple and inexpensive measures, lead a longer life and extend your years of well-being. My most important recommendation is that you take vitamins every day in optimum amounts to supplement the vitamins that you receive in your food.

Homo sapiens is a social being, and our well-being depends to a large extent on the quality and depth of our social and family relations - and in the last 200 years, they have been disintegrating.

I trained in internal medicine, and I expected most of my time would be spent on diabetes or heart disease or cancer. What I didn't expect was that so many people I saw would be struggling with loneliness.

I'm not about anything special - I don't use a trainer or anything like that. And really just eating healthy, eating balanced, knowing what is good and, when you push it too far, easing up and getting back on track.

I have always looked after my health. I have a personal trainer and I'm usually hunting-fit.

I am more interested in health, quality of life, longevity and how training and nutrition affects that as you get older.

The question I wanted to answer was, could I train my mind to be happy the same way one trains one's body?

Buddhism allows me to feel well, tranquil, and very happy inside. This is good not only for football but for my life in general.