Quotes About Well-being

all our stuck places track back to the twin existential threats to our survival and well-being: abandonment and being overwhelmed.

He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.

If ever our people become so sordid as to feel that all that counts is moneyed prosperity, ignoble well-being, effortless ease and comfort," he warned, "then this nation shall perish, as it will deserve to perish, from the earth.

Call me selfish, but I want to keep as much of my blood as I possibly can, for as long as I can.

All I'm saying is that laughing is healthy. A lot healthier than getting socked in the stomach.

Unfortunately but absolutely fair to all, the one thing money can't buy is health - and happiness.

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.

The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world.

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.

I'm not someone who can just be paid to play keyboards on songs. I tried to do it - I needed the money, but it made me really unhappy and ill to be doing it.

Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

If you're unhappy, you can't make anything.

For years I thought of many other people. As we all do. But we should all step back and say, 'What's making me unhappy? What's not working for me? What can I take out for a bit and take out long-term that will help me a bit?'

There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.

One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.

An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child.

I'd like to think that, if I'm unhappy, that I would try and change things so I am happy.

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing.

If I feel really ugly or unhappy, sometimes I'll choose bright colors so they'll make me feel good. Yellows, pinks, light blues and orange. I just want to feel good all the time if I can. And colors and hairstyles and all that kind of helps out.