Quotes About Well-being

Food is about nurturing: not only physical but also emotional nurturing.

Self-care is about eating nourishing foods, taking care of your spiritual and emotional well-being, spending quality time with friends and family, or taking yourself away on retreat. No waiting until you've run yourself into the ground or you're running on empty. Your self-care needs to be ongoing and topped up on a regular basis with self-care treats.

The first wealth is health. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

Your "why" should be centered around yourself. If you're not taken care of, how do you ever expect to take care of others?

Thinkers should not be too impersonal. They tend to think it obvious that by marrying a person they have demonstrated their esteem once and for all and that their useful everyday acts demonstrate their concern for that person's well-being (it would

Poi, invece, seppi ch'essa neppur sapeva come fosse fatta la salute. La salute non analizza se stessa e neppur si guarda nello specchio. Solo noi malati sappiamo qualche cosa di noi stessi.

Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves.

Under the law established by the possessor of the greatest number of devices, sickness and the sick will flourish.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

The machine-like behavior of people chained to electronics constitutes a degradation of their well-being and of their dignity which, for most people in the long run, becomes intolerable. Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down because people cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.

Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.

Not clinging to goals, even worthy goals, may be the way out of unhappiness.

it's difficult to be curious and unhappy at the same time.

see thoughts as mental events—like clouds in the sky—and helping you to cultivate an attitude of acceptance, compassion and empathy toward yourself and others.

It is actually okay to stop trying to solve the problem of feeling bad. In fact it is wise because our habitual ways of solving problems almost invariably wind up making things worse.

The evidence is clear: brooding is the problem,not the solution.

Numerous psychological studies have shown that regular meditators are happier and more contented than average.1 These are not just important results in themselves but have huge medical significance as such positive emotions are linked to a longer and healthier life.

Relaxation, peace and contentment are the by-products of the work you are doing, not its goal.

mindfulness allows you to catch negative thought patterns before they tip you into a downward spiral. It begins the process of putting you back in control of your life.

You can learn to observe negative thoughts as they arise, let them stay a while and then simply watch them evaporate before your eyes. And when this occurs, an extraordinary thing can happen: a profound sense of happiness and peace fills the void.