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Quotes About Well-being

The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
~ Alexander Pope
Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.
~ B. F. Skinner
Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.
~ Harriet Martineau
What signifies sadness, sir; a man grows lean on it.
~ Henry Mackenzie
What determines when we stay wise rather than lurch into reactivity? Current research shows clearly that it's determined by our subjective sense of safety or its lack.
~ Terrence Real
No generation in history has taken so seriously issues of health and well-being—both for ourselves and our children. And yet, nonetheless, we have never been lonelier. Our sense of community is breaking down, our sense of belonging has seldom felt weaker, and, silhouetted against this backdrop, couples that once loved one another have never had a more difficult time holding fast.
~ Terrence Real
Health is a relationship between you and your body.
~ Terri Guillemets
Even when life isn't good on the outside, you have an option to make it good from the inside out.
~ Terri Guillemets
If your body's not right, the rest of your day will go all wrong. Take care of yourself.
~ Terri Guillemets
Can plants be happy? If they get what they need, they thrive — that's what I know.
~ Terri Guillemets
Since when did pursuit of quality of life trump actual quaility of life?
~ Terry Tufts
Don't let one bad moment ruin your day. Think of it as a bad minute, not a bad day, and you'll be OK. Stress begins when your worry list is longer than your gratitude list. Happiness begins when your gratitude list is longer than your worry list. So find something to be thankful for today. Be sure to appreciate what you've got. Be thankful for the little things in life that mean a lot.
~ The Angel Affect
You can call the depression hotline.
~ The Blonde Jon
Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.
~ Theodor Adorno
even received a few requests that I send medicine, since none was available in the local pharmacies—an admission, unthinkable a few years ago, that all is not well in the much-vaunted health-care system.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
True, its people were much better off in material terms at the end of the century than at its outset, but man's sense of well-being depends upon comparison with others as well as upon his absolute condition.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
90% of the work in this country is done by people who don't feel good".
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books
~ Theodore Roosevelt
But the joy of life is a very good thing, and while work is the essential in it, play also has its place.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The building of a good society is not primarily a social, but a psychic task.
~ Theodore Roszak
Live long and prosper
~ Theodore Sturgeon
If the first thing you do when you wake up is reach for your phone, the signal you are sending your brain is that the needs of others –the messages on your phone –are more important than your own needs.
~ Theresa Cheung
Life is too long not to be happy.
~ Thom Barber
And so we see people who are spiritually disconnected, living in boxes and driving in boxes, perhaps once a year going "out to nature" to get a small touch of what was once the daily experience of humans. These people seek escape. They sit in urban and suburban homes and feel miserable, not knowing why, experiencing anxiety and fear and pain that cannot be softened by drugs or TV or therapy because they are afflicted with a sickness of the soul, not of the mind.
~ Thom Hartmann