Quotes About Well-being

Agatha Swanburne - "Peas first, biscuits last, make for a happy meal.

The most serious cause of illness that we may face as we proceed to the twenty-first century is increasing human isolation.

Why do you have to develop? If economic growth rises from 5% to 10%, is happiness going to double? What's wrong with a growth rate of 0%? Isn't this a rather stable kind of economics? Could there be anything better than living simply and taking it easy?

It is chronic water shortage in the body that causes most diseases of the human body. Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj

Love and gratitude This crystal is as perfect as can be. This indicates that love and gratitude are fundamental to the phenomenon of life in all of nature.

el estoicismo no se centra en suprimir u ocultar las emociones; más bien se trata de reconocer nuestras emociones, reflexionar sobre lo que las provoca y redirigirlas para nuestro propio bien.

En realidad, el estoicismo no se centra en suprimir u ocultar las emociones; más bien se trata de reconocer nuestras emociones, reflexionar sobre lo que las provoca y redirigirlas para nuestro propio bien.

Mientras que la ética moderna se ocupa principalmente de si las acciones son correctas o no, los filósofos premodernos concebían la ética como una investigación mucho más amplia sobre cómo vivir una vida feliz, cuya consecución consideraban la empresa más importante del ser humano.

The fact that our qualities are relational has ethical implications. Since there is no "me" that is completely independent of my relationships, I live well to the extent that I do a good job at my relationships.

The basic idea of the new philosophy was that in order to figure out how to live a life worth living, a eudaimonic life, as both modern philosophers and psychologists still refer to it, we have to master two things: we need to develop a decent understanding of how the world works, so not to engage in wishful thinking and waste a lot of time and resources; and we need to reason as well as we can about things, or we risk arriving at the wrong conclusions as to what to do and how.

A healthy body is better than a healthy bank account.

Your physical capacities are only part of the big picture," he told the gathering. "If your spirit is happy and strong, then you're stable under pressure.

Happiness is not good for the economy. We are encouraged, continually, to be a little bit dissatisfied with ourselves.

If you have ever believed a depressive wants to be happy, you are wrong. They could not care less about the luxury of happiness. They just want to feel an absence of pain.

The key to happiness - or that even more desired thing, calmness - lies not in always thinking happy thoughts. No. That is impossible. No mind on earth with any kind of intelligence could spend a lifetime enjoying only happy thoughts. They key is in accepting your thoughts, all of them, even the bad ones. Accept thoughts, but don't become them. Understand, for instance, that having a sad thought, even having a continual succession of sad thoughts, is not the same as being a sad person.

I think that basically we are all helping people. All the time. Every time any of us speaks openly about mental health, we are helping normalize an illness that is still handled with protective goggles and safety gloves.

Don't worry about being angry. Worry when being angry becomes impossible. Because then you have been consumed.

Don't feel guilty about being idle. More harm is probably done to the world through work than idleness. But perfect your idleness. Make it mindful.

it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunize you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can't have one without the other. Of course, they come in different degrees and quantities. But there is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you're in.

No is a good word. It keeps you sane. In an age of overload, no is really yes. It is yes to having the space you need to live.

That's the odd thing about depression and anxiety. It acts like an intense fear of happiness, even as you yourself consciously want that happiness more than anything.

A SIDE EFFECT OF depression is sometimes to become obsessed with the functioning of your brain.

If pills work for you it doesn't really matter if this is to do with serotonin or another process or anything else.- keep taking them. Hell, if licking wallpaper does it for you, do that. I am not anti pill. I am pro anything that works and I know pill do work for a lot of people.

And by noticing how modern life makes us feel, by allowing that reality and by being broad-minded enough to change when change is healthy, we can engage with this beautiful world without being worried it will steal who we are.