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Quotes About Well-being

My ambitions at this point are modest and mostly surround staying alive.
~ David Foster Wallace
extremely sensitive: carsick, airsick, heightsick; my sister likes to say I'm lifesick)
~ David Foster Wallace
Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
~ William Shakespeare
Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you.
~ William Shakespeare
Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.
~ Winston Churchill
By consciously seeking enlightenment, you will progress quickly, receiving the rewards of ever-greater enjoyment, peace, success, good fortune, and well-being.
~ Wu Wei
And even as you're working to ensure the health of your army, you must remember to take care of your own.
~ Xenophon
It was frightening, the extent to which a full belly made for a good mood.
~ Yann Martel
The Therapeutic Sensibility The contemporary climate is therapeutic, not religious. People today hunger not for personal salvation, let alone for the restoration of an earlier golden age, but for the feeling, the momentary illusion, of personal well-being, health, and psychic security.
~ Christopher Lasch
Simple and brief interactions with nature can produce marked increases in cognitive control," they explain in a paper for Psychological Science called "The Cognitive Benefits of Interacting with Nature.
~ Christopher McDougall
The math is stark: cut the fat, and cut your cancer risk.
~ Christopher McDougall
Putnam argued that the concept of psychological bravery has not been properly recognized in ethics and asserted that the psychological bravery involved in facing fears generated by our own habits is essential to well-being.
~ Christopher Peterson
In sum, secure attachment at all ages depends on the sensitivity of attachment figures. The results of intervention studies with infants, parents, and couples provide compelling evidence that sensitivity is a skill that can be taught and learned, and that can transform troubled relationships into well-functioning, satisfying ones.
~ Christopher Peterson
Forgiveness is associated with a variety of traits that are of value for personal and societal well-being. Forgiving people appear to be slightly lower in a variety of negative affects, including anger, anxiety, depression, and hostility. Forgivers also tend to endorse socially desirable attitudes and behavior, and self-ratings of the disposition to forgive correlate negatively with clinicians' ratings of hostility and passive-aggressive behavior.
~ Christopher Peterson
In contrast to the objectivity of blind justice and the abstract logic of principled reasoning, care reasoning requires understanding particularity—the needs, interests, and well-being of another person—and understanding the relationship between oneself and that other person. This requires a moral stance "informed by care, love, empathy, compassion, and emotional sensitivity.
~ Christopher Peterson
For I prophecy that men will learn the use of their knees. For every thing that can be done in that posture (upon the knees) is better so done than otherwise. For I prophecy that they will understand the blessing and virtue of the rain. For rain is exceedingly good for the human body.
~ Christopher Smart
3 KEYS to a happy life ... CTRL+ALT+DEL. CONTROL your emotions, Look for an ALTERNATIVE, DELETE the past,and move on
~ Unknown
The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
~ Cicero
The welfare of the people is the ultimate law. (Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex)
~ Cicero
Seamos sinceros, una persona feliz no deja de comer durante x cantidad de días.Una persona feliz y despreocupada, una persona "normal" no cuenta cada caloría: simplemente come. Y en última instancia, si engorda hace dieta NORMAL y tema acabado. Como ya se habrán enterado, normal no es una palabra que pegue mucho conmigo.
~ Unknown
It took work to keep the mind, the heart, and emotions clean and orderly.
~ Unknown
Once your baby arrives, the world is no more the same than you are. Because from our very bodies we add to the collective human destiny. Our deepest urge is always toward life, to wholeness and well being.
~ Claire Fontaine
The great majority of my nervously ill patients have been made ill and kept ill because of the way they feel; because of fear of what they think may happen next.
~ Claire Weekes
When a person is constantly sensitized and afraid of the state he is in, we say he is nervously ill.
~ Claire Weekes