Quotes About Well-being

By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a fleeting emotion, or a mood, but an optimal state of being. Happiness is also a way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it. A

l'amour de soi conduit à souhaiter son propre bien, tandis que l'amour égoïste conduit à ne souhaiter que celui-ci.

Martin Seligman once told me, "The best it [psychoanalysis] can do is to bring us from minus ten to zero.

Can you give me one reason why I should go on living?" This book is a humble response to that question, for happiness is above all a love of life. To have lost all reason for living is to open up an abyss of suffering. As influential as external conditions may be, suffering, like well-being, is essentially an interior state. Understanding that is the key prerequisite to a life worth living.

Before we can bring happiness to others, we first must be happy ourselves; nor will happiness abide within us unless we confer it on others. If there be a smile upon our lips, those around us will soon smile too; and our happiness will become the truer and deeper as we see that these others are happy. "It is not seemly that I, who, willingly, have brought sorrow to none, should permit myself to be sad," said Marcus Aurelius, in one of his noblest passages.

Laughter aids the digestion. You can eat a huge stew with your schoolmates and digest it with no bother at all, whereas you can get indigestion eating a leaf of lettuce in boring company.

I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one with the other two... But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all.

We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.

Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?

You can't eat straight A's.

Happiness is simply "a state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant a good share of the time.

The underlying emotional problem has the same common denominator in every patient. This common denominator is that the patient has forgotten how, or probably never learned how, to control his present thinking to produce enjoyment.

It is not the child who is taught about love but the child who has experienced love that grows into a healthy, happy, well-adjusted adult.

This common denominator is that the patient has forgotten how, or probably never learned how, to control his present thinking to produce enjoyment.

You can be the smartest, most beautiful woman in the world," Nyela said, "but if you can't control your weight, you won't be happy.

The integrity of states is ruled by the socioeconomic well-being theory. The degree of the stability of any social system is proportional to the degree of its economic growth and vice versa. Stated differently, the risk to national integrity increases proportionally to the country's economic decline.

Self-preservation is as important as generosity. Because if you don't preserve yourself, keep enough for yourself, then of course you have nothing to give.

Books were an antidepressant, a powerful SSRI.

know you have other things to think about, other people who want your time, which I know you probably have to dole out really, really carefully, preserving yourself. Self-preservation is as important as generosity.

I turned only halfway, gave him half my attention. Half of myself. "Are you ever going to be happy again?

care effect,' " Nathanael Johnson wrote in Wired in 2013, "the idea that the opportunity for patients to feel heard and cared for can improve their health.

Always seek for balance in your life: If you stayed long in the darkness, walk long in the light; if you talked too much, stay silent for a good while; if you climbed the high mountains, hike long on the plains! Balance everything!

To be happy in absolute terms, along with our happiness, all the world must be happy so that we don't have to worry for anyone!

At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.