Quotes About Well-being

It seems older people maximize their well-being more – they start to realize that life is short.

How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose we know not, though sometimes sense it. But we know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.

If someone wishes you good night every day. You're happier than so many people.

Focus on good thoughts and good things will happen. Happy Wednesday stay positive. Think positive. Do positive a very good morning.

Monday for wealth, Tuesday for health, Wednesday the best day of all; Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, Saturday no luck at all.

In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touched starved. Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

As long as you're eating well and moving your body every day, age is just a state of mind

Eternity becomes more beautiful as we age, if we age well. If we age poorly, then we don't improve our minds; we don't refine all the aspects of our being.

A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age.

The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being

Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.

When you are angry, it means you, yourself are unhappy. Even if you are wronged, you are still making yourself unhappy if you feel anger.

The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed.

None of us can afford to pay the price of resenting...because of what it does to us.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.

When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.

What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all?

The problem with anger is that it's so consuming. You've got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point.

Scientists are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.

Resentment and anger are not good for the soul. They are foul things.

People are making careful, comely, dignified work of the essential tasks defined by modern values as "drudgery." And because they have thought of the well-being of all the people, all are busy. There is a use for everyone. The Amish do not have the abandoned children, cast-off old people, criminals, indigents, and vagrants whom we have "freed from drudgery." And

Nothing could be so injurious to health as the Stoic repression of desire; what is the use of prolonging a life which apathy has turned into premature death?

The simplest meaning of life, then, is joy -- the exhilaration of experience itself, of physical well-being; sheer satisfaction of muscle and sense, of palate and ear and eye. If the child is happier than the man it is because it has more body and less soul, and understands that nature comes before philosophy; it asks for no further meaning to its arms and legs than their abounding use. Perhaps if we used our arms and legs we would be happy too;