Quotes About Well-being

True wealth is having your health, and knowledge of self.

Principle #8: Fitness and Energy: Be Kind to Your Body; It's the Only One You Have You are dealing with a high-stress challenge: getting a new job in a troubled economy requires massive amounts of energy. Both physical and emotional well-being are important to assure future success. Two strategies for intensifying your energy level and overall well-being are 1) proper nutrition and 2) consistent exercise.

How do you determine your values? You do so by asking yourself the following question: "What's most important to me in my life that will make me happy and that will significantly enhance the quality of my life?

food for the body and food for the soul, the latter must always take precedence because it alone is absolutely essential.

Overloaded with stress, we often make expedient decisions that may not be in our long-term best interest.

To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.

La destinée des nations dépend de la manière dont elles se nourrissent.

All in all, in-person social interaction is much better for mental health than electronic communication.

Another study of adults found the same thing: the more people used Facebook, the lower their mental health and life satisfaction at the next assessment.

If an activity involves a screen, it's linked to less happiness and more depression. If it doesn't—particularly if it involves in-person social interaction or exercise—it's linked to more happiness and less depression.

More young people are experiencing not just symptoms of depression, and not just feelings of anxiety, but clinically diagnosable major depression...

we have forgotten its initial purpose, which was to ensure the worker's well-being.

I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.

Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.

If I'm going to be working out here in a place that at least feels like the middle of nowhere, I'm going to need access to the outside world. It's important to have access. Solitude is one thing, but you could turn into the Unabomber if you don't have some connection to people.

Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being. (109)

What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all? (73)

W]e need not become fixated upon our own suffering, whatever its origin. We offer it up, thus participating in the well-being of the universe. When we experience an illness or depression not as our own but as the universe's, we are one with all beings who experience this kind of suffering. (78)

Not only does depression take away our spiritual and emotional health, it also undermines our physical health.

Middle age is such a low point for well-being; it's at the bottom of a U-shaped curve that shows greater happiness among the younger and older people.

how you spend your money has a strong influence on how happy — or unhappy — it will make you. And, again, there's science behind this.

Despite popular assertions to the contrary, science tells us that money can buy happiness. To a point.

Considering all that competes for your time and attention, if you don't actively take steps to simplify your life and carve out what I call "breathing space," you will most certainly find yourself in a perpetual state of overwhelm.

Shawn Achor's five happy habits: Every morning write down three new things you're grateful for. Journal for two minutes a day about a positive experience from the past 24 hours. Meditate daily for a few minutes. At the start of every day, write an email to someone praising or thanking them. Get fifteen minutes of simple cardio exercise a day.