Quotes About Well-being

Q: Explain the concept of homeostasis? A: It is when you stay at home all day and don't go out.

All macro entities and institutions in the private, public, and voluntary sectors ultimately depend on the basic unit of families and thus should strongly support, financially and otherwise, well-conceived efforts to preserve and strengthen families and micro solutions.

So if you are beginning to address a sleep problem in your child, be sure to set up a firm schedule and stick to it rigorously for several weeks after your child has begun sleeping well again.

The big idea is that what matters in determining mortality and health in a society is less the overall wealth of that society and more how evenly wealth is distributed. The more equally wealth is distributed the better the health of that society.

further improvements in the quality of life no longer depend on further economic growth: the issue is now community and how we relate to each other.

A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

America, for Greene, was the great spiritual deception – the heresy of well-being.

individual risk taking, especially in the domain of risks to life and health.

No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up.

We need a revolution in academia, with every social science attempting to understand the causes of happiness.

The rich are so near the top that their reference group is likely to include people who are poorer that the are, while the poor are so near the bottom that their reference group is likely to include people who are richer than they are. That helps to explain why the rich are on average happier than the poor.

This principle holds that a reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.

Unless the health authorities say schools have to shut down, I don't see why we should keep her home. She's not sick.

To Save Time is to Lengthen Life," proclaimed the Remington Typewriter Company.

Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it's one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don't even know that we are infected.

Well-being is like a virus. One self-assured person at home in this world can infect dozens of others. Wouldn't you like to see an epidemic of infectious well-being?

NO TO THE SUICIDE ECONOMY

The message is clear – those who do not feel in control of their lives are less successful, and less psychologically and physically healthy, than those who do feel in control.

In short, when it comes to an instant fix for everyday happiness, certain types of writing have a surprisingly quick and large impact. Expressing gratitude, thinking about a perfect future, and affectionate writing have been scientifically proven to work—and all they require is a pen, a piece of paper, and a few moments of your time.

When trying to write your way to a happier life, expressing gratitude is just the tip of the iceberg.

When people can afford necessities in life, an increase in income dones not result in a significantly happier life.

Spend just a few nights sleeping for seven hours or less and your brain goes into slow motion. To make matters worse, you will continue to feel fine and so don't make allowances for your sluggish mind. Within just a couple of days this level of sleep deprivation transforms you into an accident waiting to happen.

I figured something out. You can't hold onto hate forever. It won't do a thing to the person you hate, but it'll poison you, sure enough.

Europeans marvel at how Americans seem willing, almost eager, to work themselves into an early grave. My European friends have told me proudly, "We don't live to work…we work to live.