Quotes About Well-being

We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.

Someday someone should make a study of the silence that falls inside a car when you're returning home after having flaunted your well-being, partly to edify the company, partly to deceive yourself. It's a silence that tolerates no sound, not even the radio, for who in that mute war of opposition would dare to turn it on?

We don't stop thinking about ourselves the whole time. Even when this makes us unhappy and uptight. If we focus too much on ourselves, we make ourselves sick. We have this constant inner chatter going morning, noon, and night, this inner monologue. But paradoxically, the more we are able to think about making other beings happy, the happier we become ourselves

Every living being strives for happiness. Every being wants to avoid all forms of suffering.

the more we keep giving, the more profound our sense of well-being.

The power of meow?" suggested Serena as Mrs. Trinci stroked me. "Exactly," said His Holiness, chuckling. "It is the pathway to well-being and to discovering our own true nature.

mind that is peaceful, gentle and benevolent will only produce positive outcomes.

Our own well-being and the well-being of those around us depends on being guided by the right priorities,

Both happiness and unhappiness arise from thought. Our challenge is to develop those thoughts that create happiness and avoid those that cause us to suffer. So much of the time, we are having negative thoughts without realizing what is happening because we're so caught up in them. Or because we can't help ourselves. But with mindfulness, it's possible to become more aware. To observe what we are thinking, and if necessary, to change.

May all beings be free from suffering and the true causes of suffering;

We each need to find out our own personal methods of cultivating happiness,

You don't need any special ability to care for the well-being of others. Anyone can practise generosity, giving support to those around us.

When one is angry, the first person to suffer is oneself. No one who is angry has a happy, peaceful mind.

anger causes so much misery both for the person on the receiving end, as well as for the person experiencing it.

Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.

A company has a responsibility beyond making a profit for stockholders; it has a responsibility to recognize the dignity of its employees as human beings, to the well-being of its customers, and to the community at large.

I predict we will abolish suffering throughout the living world. Our descendants will be animated by gradients of genetically pre-programmed well-being that are orders of magnitude richer than today's peak experiences.

The junkie derives his opioid supply exogenously; while the release of endogenous opioids in the rest of us is triggered, and not always very reliably either, by stimuli such as food, sex, exercise and social interaction. We're all still seeking the same core states of psycho-chemical well-being under one description or other.

The fact that changes in our gut affect our brain's response to negativity or emotionally stirring images is just mind-boggling. But it's also empowering. It means that what we put in our mouths and how we feed our gut bacteria do indeed affect our brain's functionality.

often a fully preventable problem. If you're a chronic headache sufferer, why not try a gluten-free diet? What have you got to lose?

all manner of disease is rooted in inflammation run amok, and your immune system controls inflammation.

As many as 40 percent of us can't properly process gluten, and the remaining 60 percent could be in harm's way.

innumerable studies have demonstrated that depression runs much higher in people who have low cholesterol.22

We have the opportunity to choose whether we want to hang on or let go of emotional upsets. We can look at the cost of hanging on to them. Do we want to pay the price? Are we willing to accept the feelings? We can look at the benefits of letting go of them. The choice we make will determine our future. What kind of a future do we want? Will we choose to be healed, or will we become one of the walking wounded?