Quotes About Well-being

The unpleasant qualities of emotions come from not letting them through, from holding on to them by not participating with them. By directly participating with feelings, largely through breathing with them, you can rid yourself of much unnecessary negativity.

voluntary work, grew fatter and spent more time at home. The house and the immediate family became central, to the detriment of public life.

I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

MARGIE: You want to know if she'll survive? She'll survive! Living with someone who doesn't want to be there would do more harm.

Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

The city as the engine for social change and increasing well-being is one of the truly great triumphs of our amazing ability to form social groups and collectively take advantage of economies of scale.

Somehow they fail to see that for someone aggravated by depression, self-help will be useless, indeed, it is precisely the self that needs to be forgotten.

The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.

But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.

the wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets—a vicious circle.

Children who fail to learn basic love and trust at home are handicapped later in mastering the assertiveness, initiative, and autonomy that are the foundation of successful adulthood.

There are two pillars of happiness revealed by the seventy-five-year-old Grant Study (and exemplified by Dr. Godfrey Minot Camille). One is love. The other is finding a way of coping with life that does not push love away. And that is why I offer Dr. Camille's story as a sort of outline of the terrain we'll be covering through the rest of this book.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

Their job as leader was not to solve the problem – the president really has little control over the economy – but to convince the public not only that he has a plan but that he is altogether confident in the plan's success and that only a cynic or someone in different to the public's well-being would dare to question him on the details.

You can do without sleep or without food, but not without both and sleep wasn't an option.

Just staying sharp. Keeping you safe keeps me in shape.

Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.

Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

Das Lachen ist der Gesundheit zuträglich, denn es fördert die Verdauung.

I class the principle of moral feeling under that of happiness, because every empirical interest promises to contribute to our well-being by the agreeableness that a thing affords, whether profit be regarded.

We are, indeed, fully prepared to believe that the bearing of children may and ought to become as free from danger and long debility to the civilized woman as it is to the savage. —Thomas Huxley

Medicare would not pay for more basic "life support," such as someone to help Mr. St. Pierre to get up and dressed each day, to bathe him a few times a week, or to prepare his meals. These things were not health care, and Medicare and insurance guidelines make clear that only health care is covered.