Quotes About Well-being

And how can anyone give you happiness who hasn't got it himself?

the culture with the most peace, money, and leisure is also the one with the most malignant sadness.

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.

When life has been well spent; when there is a conscience without reproach; when there is faith in the Saviour; when there is a well-founded hope of heaven, there can be nothing that should disquiet us.

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

Like most Americans at the time, national leaders did not consider the federal government responsible for the health and well-being of civilians. These were duties of families, churches, charities, and local authorities. As

La nostra società, sempre più grande e bella, a questo punto è come un ipocondriaco, talmente ossessionato dalla sua salute finanziaria da aver perso la capacità di rimanere sano. Il mondo è così incessantemente avido di vasche da bagno che ha perduto l'equilibrio necessario per costruirle e persino per chiudere i rubinetti.

We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.

No one can desire to be blessed, to act well and to live well, unless at the same time he desires to be, to act, and to live, that is, to actually exist.

Steve, are you alright. I have asked for tomorrow because of you. Your health is not good," said Notch. "My health is Ok. I get blackouts once in a while, but other than that I am fine. I am ready to go. We can begin right now. If we wait too long, my health may worsen," said Steve. "Alright, as you think appropriate. We will begin right away. Take all your necessary belongings," said Notch.

If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.

When meaning is honored at the top of any organization, it can be easy to bring meaning to our jobs. It's a natural reflection of meaningful values. If we are valued and appreciated, if our well-being is nurtured, we feel a part of a meaningful whole. But soulfulness can trickle up, too. It might be more difficult to honor meaning at work with little evidence from above, but it also might be more important to do so.

To survive, much less succeed, I learned I could not give myself over to either pleasure or misery in excess. Whatever you felt was not important. To

Happiness is the consciousness of growth. [...] If my definition has validity, it suggests that most people come to therapy because they sense their growth has been arrested. Certainly many patients look to therapy to reinstitute the growth process. (33)

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease

That true self-love and social are the same.

It's amazing the relationships you forge in a kitchen. When you cooperate in an environment that's hot. Where there's a lot of knives. You're trusting your well-being with someone you've never before met or known.

A family is like medicine." She twisted her lips into a sardonic smile. "Best in small doses.

Don't worry about me. I'm going to learn to be happy.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this that peoples should scorn public peace, but neither should they be satisfied with that and nothing more. A nation that asks nothing of government but the maintenance of order is already a slave in the depths of its heart; it is a slave of its well-being, ready for the man who will put it in chains.

The most significant factor in an individual's ability to remain in good health may be a sense of control over the events of life," one psychologist has remarked.

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.