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Quotes About Well-being

The loss of her reason did not seem to have made her unhappy
~ Iris Murdoch
They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.
~ Isabel Allende
La orice vârst? trebuie s? ai un scop în via??, aÈ™a se vindec? multe rele.
~ Isabel Allende
Der] ziellose Blick eines Menschen, der sich ausschließlich von Gemüse ernährt.
~ Isabel Allende
Full belly, happy heart," was the favorite saying of Padre Mendoza, who had been obsessed with good nutrition ever since he'd heard of sailors suffering from scurvy when a lemon could have prevented their agony.
~ Isabel Allende
A cualquier edad es preciso un propósito en la vida. Es la mejor cura contra muchos males»
~ Isabel Allende
It occurs to me that this sobriety, so deeply rooted in my family, as well as our habit of veiling our happiness or well-being, was founded in the embarrassment we felt when we saw the poverty all around us.
~ Isabel Allende
I believe psychology has done very well in working out how to understand and treat disease. But I think that is literally half-baked. If all you do is work to fix problems, to alleviate suffering, then by definition you are working to get people to zero, to neutral.
~ Martin Seligman
I think size zero is extreme. Even if I starve and stop eating, I don't think I would ever reach size zero in life.
~ Parineeti Chopra
I don't think anyone should try to put themselves in a situation or push themselves out of the zone that they don't feel comfortable and safe in.
~ Liz Carmouche
We humans, just like the animals in our zoos, were born into bodies whose workings are both mechanistically predictable and unfathomably complex. Put in lots of sugar, and we'll get fat and sick. Confine our movement, and we'll get weak and antsy. Give us some manageable problems with which to grapple, and we'll cheer up.
~ Ben Dolnick
I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.
~ Nikita Khrushchev
A man of gladness seldom falls into madness.
~ Anonymous
Cynicism is humour in ill health.
~ H. G. Wells
Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.
~ Mark Twain
I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.
~ Beverly Sills
A smiling face is half the meal.
~ Latvian proverb
Health is the vital principle of bliss.
~ James Thomson
The happiness of any given life is to be measured not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering, from positive evil.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
I have learned to have very modest goals for society and myself, things like clean air, green grass, children with bright eyes, not being pushed around, useful work that suits one's abilities, plain tasty food, and occasional satisfying nookie.
~ Paul Goodman
I'm not going to let my life revolve around losing weight. I have other things to do.
~ Rosie O'Donnell
From his cradle to the grave, a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object save one-to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for himself.
~ Mark Twain
Man's happiness springs mainly from moderate troubles, which afford the mind a healthful stimulus, and are followed by a reaction which produces a cheerful flow of spirits.
~ E. Wigglesworth
Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.
~ Albert Schweitzer