Quotes About Well-being

Being in control of the mind means that literally anything that happens can be a source of joy.

A community should be judged good not because it is technologically advanced, or swimming in material riches; it is good if it offers people a chance to enjoy as many aspects of their lives as possible, while allowing them to develop their potential in the pursuit of ever greater challenges.

But as soon as these basic problems of survival are solved, merely having enough food and a comfortable shelter is no longer sufficient to make people content. New needs are felt, new desires arise. With affluence and power come escalating expectations, and as our level of wealth and comforts keeps increasing, the sense of well-being we hoped to achieve keeps receding into the distance.

one society is "better" than another if a greater number of its people have access to experiences that are in line with their goals.

People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives

Ask yourself whether you are happy," said J. S. Mill, "and you cease to be so.

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.

Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness.

Holistic medicine and such books as Norman Cousins's account of his successful fight against terminal illness and Dr. Bernie Siegel's descriptions of self-healing are beginning to redress the abstractly materialist view of health that has become so prevalent in this century.

But whatever the dictates of fashion, it seems that those who take the trouble to gain mastery over what happens in consciousness do live a happier life.

the control of consciousness determines the quality of life

that the control of consciousness determines the quality of life

This simple truth—that the control of consciousness determines the quality of life—has been known for a long time; in fact, for as long as human records exist.

It is true that if one finds flow in work, and in relations with other people, one is well on the way toward improving the quality of life as a whole.

Our perceptions about our lives are the outcome of many forces that shape experience, each having an impact on whether we feel good or bad.

Ask yourself whether you are happy," said J. S. Mill, "and you cease to be so." It

To improve life one must improve the quality of experience.

So the first step in improving the quality of life consists in engineering daily activities so that one gets the most rewarding experiences from them.

It is true that since time immemorial those who paid another person's wages were not particularly concerned with the well-being of their employees. It takes extraordinary inner resources to achieve flow while digging a mile below ground in a South African mine, or cutting sugarcane on a sweltering plantation. Even in our enlightened days, with all the emphasis on "human resources," management is all too often disinterested in how employees experience work.

It sounds somewhat ridiculous to say that one of the problems we face at this point in history is that we haven't learned how to spend free time in a sensible way.

Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.

People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

Influence means living a healthy emotional life in close proximity to others

downs. Healthy people learn how to live with both. They enjoy the good but aren't devastated by the bad. Joy means appreciating the positive experiences in life but finding meaning in the tough times as well. It means living lightly and realistically, no matter what happens.