Quotes About Well-being

It is an extraordinary fact that having good and loving relationships physically alters your DNA.

Not only do you not do your best work in the "dangerously over-challenged" range, but if you stay in this range for very long, something in your life will break. I don't care how resilient you are, how much energy you naturally possess, or how much mental toughness you think you have; something will break. You will not be exempt from this law. Your health, marriage, connection with your kids, relationship with God, emotional well-being—something is going to crack.

Nadie más puede llenar tu depósito. Te toca a ti proteger tus reservas de energía y tus prioridades.

To love as Jesus loves we have to put truth telling ahead of peace keeping. We also have to put the other person's well-being ahead of the comfort level of our relationship.

The best possible medical care begins with self-care, which allows you to exert some control over your own well-being.

Quand on est malheureux, le plaisir nous fair peur.

Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction; it's part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space, and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity.

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.

She told me that she did not like the idea of your being in that house all by yourself, and that she thought you took too much strong tea. In fact she wants me to advise you if possible to give up the tea and the very late hours.

I can honestly say that my misery had been transformed into common unhappiness, so by Freud's definition I have achieved mental health.

Vuoto e noia: che eufemismo. Provavo la desolazione più nera. Desolazione disperazione e depressione. Ci sono altri modi di guardare a tutto ciò? In fondo, una inquietudine di dimensioni tali è un oggetto di lusso. Bisogna essere ben nutriti, vestiti e avere una bella casa, se si vuole aver tempo per tutta questa autocommiserazione.

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May I feel contented and safe. May I feel protected and pleased. May my physical body support me with strength. May my life unfold smoothly with ease. [p. 71]

I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with my body than something wrong with my head, but the idea seemed so involved and wearisome that I didn't say anything. I only burrowed down further in the bed.

Preferiría que algo funcionara mal en mi cuerpo a que funcionara mal en mi cabeza, pero la idea parecía tan complicada que no dije nada

I also hate people to ask cheerfully how you are when they know you're feeling like hell and expect you to say "Fine.

We're all of us ill in one way or another: We call it health when we find no symptom Of illness. Health is a relative term.

When the question is Why do you want to be happy? the answer is simple and definitive. We pursue happiness because it is in our nature to do so. When the answer to a question is Because it will make me happy, nothing can challenge the validity and finality of the answer. Happiness is the highest on the hierarchy of goals, the end toward which all other ends lead.

Time-use may be the determinant of well-being that is the most susceptible to improvement.

Les gens gentils réussissent mieux que les autres. Le plus beau quand on s'intéresse aux autres, c'est qu'on se détourne de ses propres soucis, ses propres angoisses et ca coute beaucoup moins chère qu'une psychothérapie.

not money or prestige, should be regarded as the ultimate currency—the currency by which we take measure of our lives.

Wenna followed us out. You've done him some good, Clary, I have to say! He's got color in his cheeks, and he's stepping along as if he was sixty again, she told Goodwin as she walked us to the gate. You'll come back? Of course, Goodwin said. But thank Cooper for his improved spirits. Once he'd insulted her a few times, he was in the pink.

miles a day, which is illegal in most towns. Even if it's not illegal, it's dangerous. So you have to figure out substitute behaviors that keep your dog happy

But all will be well, and all will be well, and every kind of thing will be well.