Quotes About Well-being

Sorrow, irritation, doubt, anxiety, or any other turbulent emotion that might otherwise keep her from sleeping, eating, or, in extreme cases, speaking coherently or getting out of bed, would disappear almost completely when she was in the act of telling a story.

It seemed to him that a society in which the most common prescription drug was Valium was, by definition, a society with unsolved problems.

Cure the symptoms, cure the disease.

But it turns out that people who are grounded and secure don't change much under stress. That's what being grounded means.

Happiness is a decision.

Social well-being Ã¢â'¬Â¦ depends upon cohesion and solidarity. It implies the existence, not merely of opportunities to ascend, but of a high level of general culture, and a strong sense of common interests.… Individual happiness does not only require that men should be free to rise to new positions of comfort and distinction; it also requires that they should be able to lead a life of dignity and culture, whether they rise or not.4

A leader's first duty is to look after his or her people, especially those who are sick, hungry, or thirsty.

It's so ... warm and comforting. I'm relieved to be away from Earth. I just want to stay here always. There is no tension, or worries, only a sense of well-being. I'm just floating ... how beautiful

The cook in the kitchen preparing a meal from plants and animals at the end of this shortest of food chains has a great many things to worry about, but "health" is simply not one of them, because it is given.

it would be a big mistake if medicalization is all that happens." Why a mistake? Because Bob Jesse was ultimately less interested in people's mental problems than with their spiritual well-being—in using entheogens for the betterment of well people.

Thirty years of nutritional advice have left us fatter, sicker, and more poorly nourished. Which is why we find ourselves in the predicament we do: in need of a whole new way to think about eating.

People who get off the Western diet see dramatic improvements in their health.

The scientists haven't tested the hypothesis yet, but I'm willing to bet that when they do they'll find an inverse correlation between the amount of time people spend worrying about nutrition and their overall health and happiness.

Don't take the silence of the yams as a sign they have nothing valuable to say about your health.

the billions we spend on antiinflammatory drugs such as aspirin, ibuprofen, and acetaminophen is money spent to undo the effects of too much omega-6 in the diet.

Quanto mais branco o pão, mais depressa você vai para o caixão.

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

I feel like part of the reason I play basketball so much is it just feels good. In the summer I play every single day.

The single best indicator of whether or not a child is going to be in poverty or not is whether or not they were raised by a two-parent household or a single parent household.

We must simply do every single thing in our power to protect our children from abuse and help them live healthy, prosperous lives.

Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.

Call me boring, but I can't handle negative situations.

It's a really skewed part of our culture that happiness is the end-all be-all. The people that force themselves to be happy all the time often end up being the most broken.

It doesn't have to be a problem for children to be fat, but it does affect you: you aren't as happy in that skin.