Quotes About Well-being

Sexual overindulgence may not only destroy reason and willpower, but it may also lead to either temporary or permanent mental dysfunction.

Physical fitness is of utmost importance for the simple reason that neither mind nor body can function well without it.

If you start this day with a healthy Point-Of-View, you will end it a happier, healthier, broader, bigger person. How wonderful, too, the individual effect that a high, square Point-of-View has, not upon yourself alone but on your whole environment. In fact, how it makes Environment!

Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health

If it costs you your peace, it's too expensive.

wealth does not count so much into one's well-being as the route one uses to get to it.

good news is good news first; how good matters rather little. So to have a pleasant life you should spread these small "affects" across time as evenly as possible. Plenty of mildly good news is preferable to one single lump of great news.

True success is exiting some rat race to modulate one's activities for peace of mind

As a matter of fact, your happiness depends far more on the number of instances of positive feelings, what psychologists call "positive affect," than on their intensity when they hit. In other words, good news is good news first; how good matters rather little. So to have a pleasant life you should spread these small "affects" across time as evenly as possible. Plenty of mildly good news is preferable to one single lump of great news.

Patients who spend fifteen minutes every day writing an account of their daily troubles feel indeed better about what has befallen them. You

In a system, the sacrifices of some units—fragile units, that is, or people—are often necessary for the well-being of other units or the whole.

those who live under a self-imposed pressure to be optimal in their enjoyment of things suffer a measure of distress.

from cramming my day with appointments

research on happiness shows that those who live under a self-imposed pressure to be optimal in their enjoyment of things suffer a measure of distress.

once a man crossed the forty-year mark, he had shown that very few ailments could harm him.

so the gains in life expectancy are more societal than from the result of scientific advance.

your happiness depends far more on the number of instances of positive feelings, what psychologists call "positive affect," than on their intensity when they hit. In

Wealth does not count so much into one's well-being as the route one uses to get to it.

So to have a pleasant life you should spread these small "affects" across time as evenly as possible.

wealth itself does not really make one happy (above, of course, some subsistence level); but positive changes in wealth may

Or, if I have to work, I find it preferable (and less painful) to work intensely for very short hours, then do nothing for the rest of the time (assuming doing nothing is really doing nothing), until I recover completely and look forward to a repetition, rather than being subjected to the tedium of Japanese style low-intensity interminable office hours with sleep deprivation. Main course and dessert are separate.

true wealth consists in worriless sleeping, clear conscience, reciprocal gratitude, absence of envy, good appetite, muscle strength, physical energy, frequent laughs, no meals alone, no gym class, some physical labor (or hobby), good bowel movements, no meeting rooms, and periodic surprises, then it is largely subtractive (elimination of iatrogenics).

like the chronic stress we experience daily from small doses of negative feelings

people might prefer to do something other than maximize their economic interests.