Quotes About Well-being

estrés y la depresión en la Universidad de Oxford y en otras instituciones. Ese trabajo ha descubierto el secreto de la felicidad continuada y cómo abordar con éxito la ansiedad, el estrés, el agotamiento e incluso la depresión profunda. Es ese tipo de felicidad y paz que

Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.

Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life.

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

A religion that cannot help people become happy and lead fulfilling lives cannot possibly realize world peace and free the world's people from suffering.

WHAT IS the fundamental purpose of education? Tsunesaburo Makiguchi declared, "The purpose of education is to enable children to live happy lives.

Happiness is a talent.

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happinessÖ

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

Married women are far more depressed than married men -- in unhappy marriages, three times more; and -- interestingly -- in happy marriages, five times more. In truth, it is men who are thriving in marriage, now as always, and who show symptoms of psychological and physical distress outside it. Not only their emotional well-being but their very lives, some studies say, depend on being married!

If you are miserable and ill, I can understand why you would not want to live a long time. But if you are happy and productive, why not? Why should people have to grow old and die?

The urge to cram the maximum number of activities into the minimum amount of time, notes French cultural commentator Francois Tournier, makes us "prisoners of the present… If we do not slow down, we risk becoming alienated from our own future.

When people's well-being depends on hitting certain numbers, they get very interested in tilting the odds in their favor.

Be happy, be smart, be kind, and laugh every day — even if only maniacally

Hey," he called after her, his hands on his hips, "are therapists supposed to give patients heart attacks?

Your emotional state has a tremendous amount to do with sickness, health and well-being. For years, my husband and I lived on -- and because of -- hope. Hope continues to give me the mental strength to carry on.

Cleanliness, particularly personal cleanliness, was an assertion against madness. It was a declaration of control.

It was the conclusion that the secret to living a long life had nothing to do with happiness, a lack of stress, or avoiding hard work. They found that the secret was living conscientiously and using forethought, planning, and perseverance in all aspects of one's life. Conscientiousness was the number-one predictor of longevity. Friedman offers a number of reasons

happiness is about 40 percent genetic (you inherit it from your ancestors), 10 percent your situation in life or what happens to you, and 50 percent habits and mindset.

Cautious Brain Types often look to the future with trepidation, but when you are wrapped up in the future, it means you are missing out on the present and live with a baseline level of anxiety, which creates misery.