Quotes About Well-being

I'm not a proponent of staying together and being miserable and damaged and coming through actually a more battered person.

If you want to have the clarity and steadiness to deal with that '3:00 A.M. phone call,' you should better have made sure that you're not running on empty when that phone rings.

This is a truth that should be repeated like a mantra: to have any chance of a ful - filling life, we require not only clean air and a steady climate, but also an abundance of meadows and woodlands, rivers and oceans, teeming with life and the mass existence of other living creatures.

Going to the doctors - for me that was quite brave, taking that first step. That was a bit scary, saying that I wanted to go on anti-depressants.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Financially independent people are happier than those in their same income/age cohort who are not financially secure.

Health is the requisite after morality

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government

Health is worth more than learning.

The happiness and prosperity of our citizens is the only legitimate object of government.

personal well-being serves solely to excavate within your soul a chasm which waits to be filled by a landslide of dread, an empty mold whose peculiar dimensions will one day manufacture the shape of your unique terror

As one study found, frequent Facebook users—especially those who use the site to check in on the relative status or happiness of others—end up plagued by feelings of envy and are more prone to depression.

people who shut off Facebook, even for a month, reported a general improvement in their mood and happiness.32

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

An understanding of this great hermetic Principle of Mentalism enables the individual to readily grasp the laws of the Mental Universe, and to apply the same to his well-being and advancement.

A loving, compassionate person heals others simply by existing. Wherever they are, compassionate people are healing, because they do everything they can to help others with their body, speech, and mind. Merely being near a compassionate person heals us because it brings us peace and happiness. Simply seeing the face of a kind, warmhearted person makes us feel happy. (p. 51)

If you neglect to protect your mind, you can neither close the door to suffering nor open the door to happiness.– Lama Zopa Rinpoche

May you be happy . . . May you be free from suffering . . . May you be healthy . . . May you find peace and joy.

extreme loneliness is twice as likely to cause death among the elderly as obesity or high blood pressure. Those who had reported being lonely had a 14 percent greater risk of dying.

Those who can mentally cope should also do the following

So long as I fail to view this [the self] as the enemy, so long will I continue to seek the well-being of this self.

But even blessed and intelligent families lose it when their emotional problems overwhelm them. For our families it appeared to be alcoholism that led to relationship trauma … or was unhealed relationship trauma the prequel that led to using alcohol to self-medicate emotional pain?

I understand loving someone, but not losing yourself to that degree. It's not healthy.