Quotes About Well-being

Pretty straightforwardly, the more categories of adversities a child suffers, the dimmer his or her chances of a happy, functional adulthood.45

Something roughly akin to love is needed for proper biological development, and its absence is among the most aching, distorting stressors that we can suffer.

There's support for the idea—three of my favorites are that (a) forcing depressed people to smile makes them feel better; (b) instructing people to take on a more "dominant" posture makes them feel more so (lowers stress hormone levels); and (c) muscle relaxants decrease anxiety ("Things are still awful, but if my muscles are so relaxed that I'm dribbling out of this chair, things must be improving"). Nonetheless

sometimes, it can be enormously stressful to construct a world without stressors.

There's support for the idea—three of my favorites are that (a) forcing depressed people to smile makes them feel better; (b) instructing people to take on a more "dominant" posture makes them feel more so (lowers stress hormone levels); and (c) muscle relaxants decrease

The impact of social relationships on life expectancy appears to be at least as large as that of variables such as cigarette smoking, hypertension, obesity, and level of physical activity.

by the year 2020, depression is projected to be the second leading cause of medical disability on earth.

It is not much different from a person who goes to the gym to exercise on a regular basis versus someone who sits on the couch watching television. Proper physical exercise increases your chances of health, and proper mental exercise increases your chances for wealth. Laziness decreases both health and wealth.

Proper physical exercise increases your chances of health, and proper mental exercise increases your chances for wealth. Laziness decreases both health and wealth.

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I constantly work to control my thoughts and my emotions.

El ejercicio físico adecuado incrementa tus probabilidades de tener buena salud, mientras que el ejercicio mental incrementa las de obtener riqueza.

The greatest happiness [...] is to sneeze when you want to.

Soul-ache doesn't worry folks near as much as stomach-ache.

To argue a moral position convincingly these days requires that one speak to (and not depart from) people's love of material well-being, their fascination with efficiency, or their fear of death.

I don't think you ever wanted to be happy anyway. It don't suit you, so you managed to avoid it.

There were the meaningless greetings the humans called formalities: insincere inquiries into the state of health, nebulous benedictions and hopes for past well-being; all compensations for the lack of human Mediators.

The overall intent is to make everyone sufficiently happy (or in some cases, insufficiently unhappy).

Cuando se habla de comer, hecho por demás importante, sólo los necios o los enfermos no le dan el interés que merece.

Getting adequate sleep is a sign that the world doesn't need your attention for seven to nine hours each day. It keeps spinning as usual in its orbit. Who wants to admit that?

Nau?ila jsem se, že si musíte udÄ›lat ?as na to, co je d?ležité. Musíte bojovat o to, abyste si do života vtÄ›snali malé kousky Å¡tÄ›stí, nebo vás každodenní starosti sežerou.

I prefer the word thriver, because I'm not just surviving, I'm thriving

Sorrisi nel riconoscere la prima persona che entrava, e subito ebbi la sensazione che tutto sarebbe andato bene. Saremmo stati protetti. Era arrivato Edward.

Come si può amare qualcuno e non desiderarne la felicità?»