Quotes About Well-being

If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.

I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

I've always eaten well and have a balanced diet.

I've never been one that was on a diet, because I always ate well.

I don't like diets, so I just try to eat well.

Don't worry about breaks every 20 minutes ruining your focus on a task. Contrary to what I might have guessed, taking regular breaks from mental tasks actually improves your creativity and productivity. Skipping breaks, on the other hand, leads to stress and fatigue.

It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism.

He looked as though he had just had a steam bath, a massage, a good breakfast and a letter from home," wrote one journalist.

a consensus has emerged that the vast majority of ritual ceremonies are concerned primarily with healing in a general sense. They exert influence on physical well-being, heighten identity, enhance interpersonal cohesion, reintegrate community into the environment, and mitigate perceived conflicts with supernatural powers. In spite of the cultural diversity of therapeutic institutions and practices, the fundamental healing principles show a good deal of cross-cultural uniformity.

There is an immediate emotional and psychological payoff to getting our houses in order. —Sarah Ban Breathnach, author of Simple Abundance: A Day book of Comfort and Joy

We are fundamentally social creatures whose survival and well-being depend on our interactions with particular, embodied, others.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

We cannot create joy and fulfillment by subtracting complexity and stress from our lives

An economy should exist for the people who inhabit it, not the other way around. The purpose of an economy is to provide everyone with opportunities to live full, happy, and productive lives.

Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a pet? I doubt it.

Attempting to suppress emotions is dysfunctional; it does not work. Emotions are energy: E-motion = energy in motion. It is supposed to be in motion, it was meant to flow.

Restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.

Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.

Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?

But if she could give the same test to humanity as a whole, Sandra thought, the outcome would be very much in doubt. Subject is confused and often self-destructive. Subject pursues short-term gratification at the expense of his own well-being.

Few subjects make more tedious reading than happiness.

Bosses shape how people spend their days and whether they experience joy or despair, perform well or badly, or are healthy or sick. Unfortunately, there are hoards of mediocre and downright rotten bosses out there, and big gaps between the best and the worst.

Being blessed has tremendous psychological consequences for us. There are even studies that show that our bodies actually change chemically when we feel valued, praised, and blessed.

physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong.