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Quotes About Well-being

We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
~ Thomas Merton, 1955
If you want to be happy, be happy.
~ South African proverb
Every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
~ Irving Hoffman
Wellness is the art of healing before you're sick.
~ Terri Guillemets
For my own part I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better... To lie there careless of everything, quiet and warm, and with no weight upon the mind... to watch the soft shadows come and go upon the ceiling... not only to be a lotus-eater but to know that it was one's duty to be a lotus-eater.
~ Samuel Butler, 1870s
Health is a relationship between you and your body.
~ Terri Guillemets
There are more ghosts in an unwell body than in an entire haunted mansion.
~ Terri Guillemets
Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such princely income of all its value.
~ Jack London
when people are feeling good about themselves, they begin to feel good about others as well.
~ Jack Stack
The enemy of fear is not courage," Jahno translated for her. "The enemy of fear is love, for it is in loving others that we set aside our own personal fears, holding their safety and well-being as our highest regard.
~ Jacqueline Carey
The enemy of fear is love, for it is in loving others that we set aside our own personal fears, holding their safety and well-being as our highest regard.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Perché pensiamo all'oceano come a una semplice riserva di cibo, petrolio e minerali? Il mare non è un banco delle occasioni. Siamo accecati dalla cupidigia per le sue grandi ricchezze subacquee. La più grande risorsa dell'oceano non è materiale, ma è data dalla fonte illimitata d'ispirazione e di benessere che ne traiamo. Ma rischiamo di contaminarlo per sempre proprio quando stiamo imparando la sua scienza, la sua arte e la sua filosofia e come vivere nel suo grembo.
~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Si quiero ser un buen gobernante de la Gran Colombia, todos mis pensamientos deben estar dirigidos a lo que pueda hacer por el bienestar de la nación. Con razón no soy un buen gobernante. Estoy dejando que mi mente se llene de ideas conspiratorias y políticas mezquinas.
~ Jaime Manrique
The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed. At the bidding of unlawful (unhealthy) thoughts, the body sinks rapidly into disease and decay; at the command of glad and beautiful thoughts, it becomes clothed with youthfulness and beauty.
~ James Allen
Thoughts of malice, envy, disappointment, despondency, rob the body of its health and grace.
~ James Allen
Every form of unhappiness springs from a wrong condition of mind. Happiness is inherent in right conditions of mind.
~ James Allen
Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
~ James Allen
DON'T LEAD A DOUBLE LIFE. Everything you do takes up space in your brain. If you live a double life (and you know what I mean if I'm talking to you), then that extra life takes up neurons and synapses working overtime. The brain can't handle it. It starts to degrade instead of grow.
~ James Altucher
Noticing your reactions to suffering, anger, pain is the key to well-being.
~ James Altucher
Filtering the people we allow into our lives is probably the most important factor in determining whether we will live a happy life or not.
~ James Altucher
And ultimately, a happy you will be the greatest contribution you can make toward a happy society.
~ James Altucher
You need to find well-being from within. And here is what it is: FREEDOM RELATIONSHIPS COMPETENCE Increase those every day and you will find well-being. If all you do is the same thing every day, you will never increase those three things in your life.
~ James Altucher
Filtering the people we allow into our lives is probably the most important factor in determining whether we will live a happy life or not. Because if we let the wrong people in, we will be drained, and if we are drained, how can we expect to have abundance or creativity?
~ James Altucher
Children laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults on average…five times a day. What else is there? TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. 
~ James Altucher