Quotes About Well-being

Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.

Is stress always bad? No - if a stressor isn't too extreme, is only transient, and occurs in what overall feels like a benevolent environment, it's great, we love it - that's what play and stimulation are.

Now as then, the various ideals of happiness carry fundamental moral teachings about how to live.

the ones who've done their own emotional work are best equipped to support their kids emotionally.

Ali kad sam preživjela trenutak one jezive usamljenosti na rubu ludila, znala sam da ?u se izvu?i. Uostalom, i bez emocija se može sasvim normalno živjeti. Kad ti iš?upaju srce, uklone ti sposobnost da patiš. Godinama nakon toga, osje?am se bolje, mirnije gledam na svoju situaciju. Još uvijek imam prijatelje, izlazim, uživam u razgovorima i izložbama.

For without love we will lose the will to live. Our mental and physical vitality is impaired, our resistance is lowered, and we succumb to illnesses that often prove fatal. We may escape actual death, but what remains is a meager and barren existence, emotionally so impoverished that we can only be called half alive.

Science says 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Doing good is a matter of looking after the part of yourself which matters most, namely your soul

Criton - Le principe, que l'important n'est pas de vivre, mais de bien vivre.

Peaceful death is really an essential human right, more essential perhaps even than the right to vote or the right to justice; it is a right on which, all religious traditions tell us, a great deal depends for the well-being and spiritual future of the dying person. There

Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not to overstretch ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations, but to simplify our lives more and more. The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

So if we wish to die well, we must learn how to live well: Hoping for a peaceful death, we must cultivate peace in our mind, and in our way of life.

May I take on the suffering of everyone who has this terrible illness. May they be free from this affliction and from all their suffering.

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.

In one study, researchers used an iPhone app to check in on people at random points throughout the day and found that the more people were thinking about something other than what they were doing, the less happy they felt. Even when they weren't thinking about anything particularly bad.

He didn't subscribe to the view...that spirituality was a fast track to happiness. He believed the opposite was true: spiritual people suffered more than most.

Most people seemed to think stable equalled happy.

By working with the elements we enable ourselves to be balanced and remain centred, whilst at the same time promoting personal growth through realization of imbalances within ourselves.

The happy man in this life needs friends.

You can heal your body with food.

But I see nothing miraculous about it. Nothing makes one as healthy as happiness, and there is no greater happiness than making someone else happy.

La gratitude rend heureux parce qu'on fait rarement l'expérience palpable, la délicatesse de sentiment fait du bien et, pour moi, être mesuré et froid, une telle exaltation signifiait quelque chose de tout à fait bienfaisant, merveilleux.