Quotes About Well-being

When you hear nothing about the body, he suggests, you stop listening to it, and feeling it; you stop experiencing it as a worthy, integrated entity.

Where are the lines between satisfaction and excess, between restraint and indulgence, between pleasure and self-destruction? And why are they so difficult to find, particularly for women?

These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake —add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem — and the feelings behind them are anything but vain or shallow... The experience of appetite in this equation is an experience of anxiety, a burden and a risk; yielding to hunger may be permissible under certain conditions, but mostly it's something to be Earned or Monitored and Controlled.

Addiction to alcohol is also a neurological phenomenon, the result of a complex set of molecular alterations that take place in the brain when it's excessively and repeatedly exposed to the drug. The science of addiction is complicated, but the basic idea is fairly straightforward: alcohol appears to wreak havoc on the brain's natural systems of craving and reward, compromising the functioning of the various neurotransmitters and proteins that create feelings of well-being.

your biography—that is, the experiences that make up your life—becomes your biology.

Success is being happy first with yourself, and secondly with your life.

Imagine having a mood system that functions essentially like weather—independently of whatever's going on in your life.

Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime.

My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.

You know, I learned at a very early age that what kind of social system or political system prevails is very important. Not just for your well-being, but for your very survival. Because, you know, I could have been killed by the Nazis. I could have wasted my life under the Communists. So, that's what led me to this idea of an open society. And that is the idea that is motivating me.

As a matter of fact, life starts to feel mighty long when all you eat is turkey bacon and egg whites and a side of arugula.

We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

hunger now seemed a prolongation of physical well-being, a delicious drowsiness.

La santé est une façon d'aborder l'existence en se sentant non seulement possesseur ou porteur, mais aussi au besoin, créateur de valeur, instaurateur de normes vitales.

It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until we lose it.

The joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days.

None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.

With a little discipline and regular self-checks, you can learn to do one thing at a time. And do it better. And be happier doing it.

It is a man's proper business to seek happiness and avoid misery.

Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problems with perspective.

People need joy quite as much as clothing. Some of them need it far more.

I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well being of mankind.