Quotes About Well-being

Todo debe estar equilibrado. La naturaleza está equilibrada. Los animales viven en armonía. Los humanos no han aprendido a hacerlo.

May his joyous grace and total well-being, flowing from our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, rest upon you.

The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.

Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.

Bottom line: If you love yourself, it will all work out.

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it … but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill … Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right. Søren Kierkegaard, letter to Jette (1847)

We ignore the emotional needs of young children at our peril.

You can't give what you don't have.

Connectedness counters the pull of addictive behaviors. It is the key.

There is a direct relationship between a person's degree of social isolation and their risk for physical and mental health problems.

The healthiest way to do this is through relationships. Connectedness regulates and rewards us.

Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World Vivek H. Murthy, M.D.

In many ways, the result of our society's poverty of relationships is a form of social and emotional starvation. Our children are starving.

There is a direct relationship between a person's degree of social isolation and their risk for physical and mental health problems. But when you do have connectedness…you have built-in buffers for whatever stress or distress you experience.

When I'm around someone who drains me, I put up a barrier—a nonphysical wall that keeps that person's negative energy away.

asking the fundamental question "What happened to you?" can help each of us know a little more about how experiences—both good and bad—shape

Yes! How were you loved—it makes all the difference. In all the conversations I've had, my experience has been that dysfunction shows up in direct proportion to how you were or were not loved.

we find that the best predictor of your current mental health is your current "relational health," or connectedness. This connectedness is fueled by two things: the basic capabilities you've developed to form and maintain relationships, and the relational "opportunities" you have in your family, neighborhood, school, and so forth.

Activating your stress-response systems, even at a moderate level, for long periods of time is physically and emotionally exhausting.

This isn't to suggest that therapy isn't helpful, but therapy without "connectedness" is not very effective.

Dr. Perry: I think that's true. Even though we live in an amazing country filled with good people, I believe that collectively we're less resilient. Our ability as a people to tolerate stressors is diminishing because our connectedness is diminishing.

What didn't happen for you? What attention, nurturing touch, reassurance—basically, what love—didn't you get? I realized that neglect is as toxic as trauma.

Certainly, our work supports that observation. One of our major findings is that in determining someone's current mental health, the history of their childhood relational health—their connectedness—is as important as, if not more important than, their history of adversity.

The key to healthy development is getting the right experiences in the right amounts at the right time.