Quotes About Well-being

It's hard to be sad when you're being useful. And he liked that idea. That service to others brought happiness. It was self-involvement that led to depression, to spiraling questions about the meaning of things.

Self-determination theory,' he intones casually, as if the moderator had never spoken, 'states that human beings need three basic things in order to feel content. Number one, they need to feel competent at what they do. Number two, they need to feel authentic in their lives, and number three, they need to feel connected to others. Is there anyone here who feels they can check all three of those boxes?

Does our lack of forgiveness really punish them, or does it just make our hearts hard and our lives unpleasent.

We tend to think of happiness (and by happiness I also mean health or overall well-being)as a gift, and sometimes it is, a pure gratuity. But most of the time it comes about because you've done the work, prepared the ground to allow it in or tended it carefully once it has arrived. You have to practice happiness the way you practice the piano, commit to it the way you commit to going to the gym.

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.

Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.

What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . .a form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.

Sympathy, on the other hand, is empathy plus caring. When we're sympathetic to others, we want them to be happy and well, we don't want them to be upset or unhappy. We actually care about them. Compassion is sympathy for others specifically in the case of their suffering.

One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.

When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy.

To love is to wish the others highest good.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

When you eat meat, you ingest not only the chemical substances that animals are full of, but also the emotional and physical stress that animals experience throughout their lives and at the moment of their slaughter. That stress is also part of your meat.

Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort.

Being healthy is an insecure state and does not bode well. It's better to be ill in a quiet way, then at least we know what we're going to die of.

By far the most significant consequence of "selfish capitalism" (Thatch/Blatcherism) has been a startling increase in the incidence of mental illness in both children and adults since the 1970s.

That genes explain our behaviour and well-being distracts attention from society as a cause; such ideas also encourage us to accept or pursue chemical, physical solutions, not social change.

If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better.

I'm happy, and I think being happy keeps you looking young.

Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.

Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.

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