Quotes About Well-being

But feed people four servings a week of beans, split peas, chickpeas, and lentils, and you can get a whopping 40 percent drop in C-reactive protein,2368 a leading indicator of systemic inflammation. More beans equals less inflammation. Greater consumption

the dividing line between health-promoting and disease-promoting foods may be less plant- versus animal-sourced foods and more whole plant foods versus most everything else.

This people learned to put aside domestic differences, develop sound military and civil defense tactics, and build a collective sense of well-being by working together for a common purpose. This form of collective action is essential to a society. It comprises one of the founding organizing principles of any group or groups of people who successfully gather together to complete higher order tasks.97

I can't make myself be happy but I can always make myself not be miserable. - Dr. Lou Welcome

Laughing brings out the good in food. It's good to laugh. If you don't laugh, you're going to magnify. And if you magnify, you're going to die.

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet.

In science, however, "God did it" is not a testable hypothesis. Inquiring minds want to know how God did it and what forces or mechanisms were at work. "God works in mysterious ways" will not pass peer review. Even such explanations as "belief in God" or "religiosity" must be broken down into their component parts to find possible causal mechanisms for the links between belief and behavior that lead to health, well-being, and longevity.

If I slept with everyone I was supposed to have, I wouldn't have the energy to eat.

Meaning comes from engagement in positive work that challenges our personal capacity combined with knowledge that our positive work is making a larger contribution to the overall well-being of humanity and life on the planet.

We can make ourselves more resilient by making the world around us supportive.

Coffee with a friend a day keeps the blues away

The greater the proportion of pure morality in a particular system, the happier and more enduring the society.

MINDFUL MOMENT: When I'm hungry, I eat what I love. When I'm bored, I do something I love. When I'm lonely, I connect with someone I love. When I feel sad, I remember that I am loved.

How would you score yourself on a scale from one to ten, with one being in great shape, in the following areas?     ââ'¬Â¢ spiritually    ____     ââ'¬Â¢ emotionally ____     ââ'¬Â¢ physically   ____     ââ'¬Â¢ financially   ____     ââ'¬Â¢ relationally ____

It is true that clutter cleaning helps us release mental energy that makes us feel better. But decluttering also has a positive impact on the quality of the space. (Chapter 4)

I don't like to abuse alcohol-anything you abuse will abuse you back.

El que regresa de un entierro, como el que sale de una pesadilla, experimenta el mismo bienestar.

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Yet even if their advice were to work, what would be the result afterward in the unlikely event that one did turn into a slim, well-loved, powerful millionaire? Usually what happens is that the person finds himself back at square one, with a new list of wishes, just as dissatisfied as before. What would really satisfy people is not getting slim or rich, but feeling good about their lives. In the quest for happiness, partial solutions don't work.

Everything the body can do is potentially enjoyable. Yet many people ignore this capacity, and use their physical equipment as little as possible, leaving its ability to provide flow unexploited. When

If goals are well chosen, and if we have the courage to abide by them despite opposition, we shall be so focused on the actions and events around us that we won't have the time to be unhappy.

As many a thinker since Aristotle has said, everything we do is ultimately aimed at experiencing happiness. We don't really want wealth, or health, or fame as such-we want these things because we hope that they will make us happy. But happiness we seek not because it will get us something else, but for its own sake.

while personal income in the U.S. more than doubled between i 96o and the 19gos in constant dollars, the proportion of people saying they are very happy remained a steady 30 percent. One conclusion that the findings seem to justify is that beyond the threshold of poverty, additional resources do not appreciably improve the chances of being happy.