Quotes About Well-being

For many years, psychology was surprisingly little interested in happiness.

Barry Schwartz's distinction between maximizers and satisficers has given us the counterintuitive insight that restricting our choices in life can actually lead to greater happiness and satisfaction, and

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want.

The last 30-32 years I haven't taken care of myself, and would eat at odd times. That caused a lot of issues and I was even at borderline diabetes.

'Rules dieters' find limitations oddly freeing, because the restrictions create a framework that's easy to follow. Essentially, rules dieters don't do well when they're let off plan, mainly because they are usually emotionally attached to food in some way.

People who say they have a best friend at work are seven times as likely to be engaged in what they're doing. And if they don't have a best friend at work, the odds of being engaged are just 1 in 12.

The right choices over time greatly improve your odds of a long and healthy life.

As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.

I'm OK: I don't need money.

I don't want to become unhealthily attached to what I do. I'm grateful for what I do, but I also want to be able to be OK when I'm not doing it.

For me, anyone who is over 80, I generally sit down and have a chat to because he is over 80, and he is going OK.

If I lived alone, Mom'd never sleep because she wouldn't know I was okay.

I've always wanted to make sure people are okay, ever since I was a little girl.

I want a comfortable old age and to be looked after - I have arthritis - and money is a factor.

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.

It's like the old thing: The parents stay together for the kids, but the kids know that you don't want to be together. The kids would rather you be happy - and separate - than together and miserable. I don't want my kid to grow up around two parents who just don't work.

One of the things that's important to me as a Londoner is making sure my family, people I care about, are safe.

One of the things that I used to make sure I'd do was to always make sure I'd have dinner at home because I needed that disconnect from work. Even when it was crazy, I'd go home at, like, 10 o'clock and have dinner. That way, I had time where I could decompress a little bit and then go back in.

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.

While the circumstances of any one situation are unique, it is clear that many families could have been helped if they had found it easier to talk openly about mental health challenges in the home.

There's all kinds of research that shows children operate best if they start the day with some proper food inside them - it's a no-brainer.

I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.