Quotes About Well-being

Happiness is a result of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings, rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

What can be added to the happiness of man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

First health, then wealth, then pleasure, and do not owe anything to anybody.

In the Orient people believed that the basis of all disease was unhappiness. Thus to make a patient happy again was to restore him to health.

The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick.

Being asked one day what was the surest way of remaining happy in this world, the Emperor Sigismund of Germany replied: "Only do in health what you have promised to do when you were sick."

It is in virtue that happiness consists, for virtue is the state of mind which tends to make the whole of life harmonious.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.

When their children flourish, almost all mothers have a sense of well-being.

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over, and showing it principally in one spot.

I don't want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That's my advice - don't die.

I think that the only pure thing we have in life is to try to be happy.

I'm trying to be more organized, put together, and be more kind to myself. I'm really hard on myself and really just self-critical and always striving for this perfection which doesn't exist.

As a party, Democrats must focus on the pocketbook issues that our constituents care about every day when they wake up to go to work, drop off their kids at school, and tuck them into bed at night.

We have to get out of this cultural mindset of putting badges on ourselves and playing the martyr spinning 1,000 plates. We need to be spinning six plates, and doing it well. Otherwise plates tumble and break.

My go-to protective thing is isolation. It's turn off the phone, don't speak to anyone, lie in bed all day, and then maybe go out at night and do the same thing over again.

It is crucial to be healthy, for pain wipes out the possibility for pleasure, and severe pain removes the possibility of turning to the world outside the body. So we must establish the idea that it is important to look well, not to look young.

One of the great things about turning 30 is figuring out how to dress comfortably and still look good.

It turns out that people who are more socially connected to family, to friends, to community, are happier, they're physically healthier, and they live longer than people who are less well connected.

Practice smiling by holding a pencil between your teeth for twenty minutes.

Kids from financially distressed households are twice as likely to have to repeat a grade and more than two-and-a-half more times to struggle with poor health later in life.

When I'm grateful for all the blessings, it puts away all the stress about things not in my control. Things like long hours, aging, pollution, scandals... it helps me create perspective by just focusing on being grateful. Take that moment twice a day with yourself.