Quotes About Well-being

Ready money works great cures.

Master your emotions.

The miniature potatoes tasted a little like dirt, and the green veggies were too chewy, but Jason ate them for the sake of his nutrition. Anything that terrible had to be healthy.

Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.

we shouldn't be required to keep giving until we'd been wrung out. That wasn't love.

I'm not crazy, I'm compratmentalized.

Your rate of neurogenesis is key to feeling good or bad, vibrant and rejuvenated or stagnant and depressed.

We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.

We're a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children.

If we want to live a Wholehearted life, we have to become intentional about cultivating sleep and play, and about letting go of exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as self-worth.

In fact, research shows that the process of labeling emotional experience is related to greater emotion regulation and psychosocial well-being.

But those who are able to distinguish between a range of various emotions "do much, much better at managing the ups and downs of ordinary existence than those who see everything in black and white.

In his book The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk, a professor of psychiatry at Boston University, explores how trauma literally reshapes the brain and the body, and how interventions that enable adults to reclaim their lives must address the relationship between our emotional well-being and our bodies.

As I asked more pointed questions about the choices and behaviors Wholehearted men and women made to reduce anxiety, they explained that reducing anxiety meant paying attention to how much they could do and how much was too much, and learning how to say, "Enough." They got very clear on what was important to them and when they could let something go.

know I'm living outside my values when I am…drum roll…this is a huge issue for me…resentful. Resentment is my barometer and my early warning system. It's the canary in the coal mine. It shows up when I stay quiet in order not to piss off someone. It shows up when I put work before my well-being, and it blows the doors off the hinges when I'm not setting good boundaries.

Jon Kabat-Zinn describes overwhelm as the all-too-common feeling "that our lives are somehow unfolding faster than the human nervous system and psyche are able to manage well.

The American Bar Association reports that suicides among lawyers are close to four times greater than the rate of the general population. An American Bar Association Journal article reported that experts on lawyer depression and substance abuse attributed the higher suicide rate to lawyers' perfectionism and on their need to be aggressive and emotionally detached.

connection and inclusion versus busyness and exhaustion.

Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or "too bad" if we don't use the gifts that we've been given; we pay for it with our emotional and physical well-being.

Brown argues that play is not an option. In fact he writes, "The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.

always knew these moments were important to me. I knew they were connected to my spiritual well-being and allowed me to stay in love with humanity while doing research that can be devastating and hard.

The dig-deep is a secret level of pushing through when we're exhausted and overwhelmed, and when there's too much to do and too little time for self-care.

But Brown argues that play is not an option. In fact he writes, "The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.

There is one guarantee: If we're not practicing gratitude and allowing ourselves to know joy, we are missing out on the two things that will actually sustain us during the inevitable hard times. What