Quotes About Well-being

Holding on to anger is like poisoning yourself and hoping someone else will die.

Art is a guarantee of sanity.

We are cutting things kids like-music, art, and gym classes; stuff that kept me in school. This country can't survive without you kids. It's all about you kids.

You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.

There is not a person alive who is not capable of greatly contributing to the well - being of this planet. Just changing your attitude can affect the world around you.

Never allow sick attitudes to poison your thinking, nor let ill will make you ill. Avoid making your mind sore by that painful rehurting called resentment.

Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.

Burnout also leads to a large swath of physicians who aren't as empathetic toward their patients as they could be.

children, possibly irreparably, physically

What if virtue, work, all our striving and sweat was simply not enough to make the animal man a happy creature?

We gravitate toward comfort, Josie thought, but it must be rationed. Give us one-third comfort and two-thirds chaos—that is balance.

We want this to be a workplace, sure, but it should also be a humanplace

Happiness above can solve the sadness below.

When people know they have a process in place to handle any situation, they are more relaxed. When they're relaxed, everything improves. More gets done, with less effort, and a host of other wonderful side effects emerge that add to the outcomes of their efforts and the quality of their life.

Most people have lived in a semistressful experience so consistently, for so long, they don't know that it could be quite different—that there is another and more positive place from which to engage with their world.

merely become an everyday part of keeping one's mental and physical environment in good order.

The maintenance of life and the pursuit of happiness are not two separate issues. —Ayn Rand

Your health doesn't just happen; it's not something that takes care of itself as you go through life. You can't leave your health in someone else's hands, and the same goes for your wealth. They're both completely in your hands.

It can work the other way as well. I have worked with many depressed patients who were still stuck after I had tried numerous psychotherapeutic interventions. When I prescribed an antidepressant medication, many of these patients started to turn the corner, and the psychotherapy began to work better. It seemed as if the medication really did help them change their negative thinking patterns as they recovered from the depression.

It did not eliminate the tumor, but it did restore her missing self-esteem, and that made all the difference in the way she felt.

I asked her to imagine that we had a magic button and that if she pushed it, all of her negative thoughts and feelings would instantly disappear, with no effort at all, and she'd immediately feel joyous, even euphoric. Would she push the button?

I told Maria that I didn't have a magic button, but I did have some awesome tools, and I predicted that if we used them, she'd probably feel a whole lot better by the end of the session and might even feel joyful. But I told her I wasn't so sure it would be a good idea to use those tools.

In contrast, if you are harboring the deep fear that you are going insane and are experiencing episodes of panic in which you sense you are losing control or going over the deep end, it is a near certainty that you are not. These are typical symptoms of ordinary anxiety, a much less serious disorder.

In my practice I find that the great majority of the depressed patients referred to me improve substantially if they try to help themselves. Sometimes it hardly seems to matter what you do as long as you do something with the attitude of self-help.