Well Being Quotes - Page 16

• The majority of people believe in incredible things which are absolutely false. The majority of people daily act in a manner prejudicial to their general well-being.

  Ashley Montagu

  Believe, People, Majority

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• The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths and vast spaces, my own well-being.

  Edward Hirsch

  Spiritual, Names, Space

  Edward Hirsch (1999). “How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is great freedom in simplicity of living, and after I began to feel this, I found harmony in my life between inner and outer well-being. There is a great deal to be said about such harmony, not only for an individual life but also for the life of a society. It's because as a world we have gotten ourselves so far out of harmony, so way off on the material side, that when we discover something like nuclear energy we are still capable of putting it into a bomb and using it to kill people! This is because our inner well-being lags so far behind our outer well-being.

  Peace Pilgrim

  People, Simplicity, Way

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• The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life. For me this began with a discovery of the meaninglessness of possessions beyond my actual and immediate needs. As soon as I had brought myself down to need level, I began to feel a wonderful harmony in my life between inner and outer well-being, between spiritual and material well-being.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Discovery, Inner Peace

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.51, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• We don't measure whether an economy is developing. We just measure whether companies are selling more, whether inventories are up or down, not whether the health, safety and economic well-being of people are being advanced.

  Ralph Nader

  Selling More, People, Safety

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• Over the span of man's history, although a phenomenal amount of education, persuasion, indoctrination and incantation have been devoted to the effort, ordinary people have never been quite persuaded that toil is as agreeable as its alternatives. Thus to take increased well-being partly in the form of more goods and partly in the form of more leisure is unquestionably rational.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, People, Effort

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1971). “The affluent society”

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• Unity in wills cannot be unless there is one will dominating and ruling all the rest to oneness... wills of mortals have need of a directive principle... therefore for the well-being of the world, there should be a monarchy.

  Dante Alighieri

  Oneness, Unity, Principles

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• If you shift your focus from oneself to others, and think more about others' well-being and welfare, it has an immediate liberating effect.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Focus, Welfare

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• When you're feeling unwell, remember that the same power that actually made your body knows how to restore it to its original state of well-being. All you have to do is remove the obstacles erected by you and your toxic world, and allow this healing power to flow through you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Healing, Feelings, Toxic

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Sep 10, 2010

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• I think a current understanding about urban behavior tells us that it's important that people get out and be able to get away from the concrete jungles and the dense environment where they live for their own mental well-being. If they don't do this, the costs in human loss and human sickness will be far greater than what we would be expending for these kinds of releases and open spaces.

  Barry Goldwater

  Loss, Thinking, Concrete Jungle

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• Government has no right to control individual liberty beyond what is necessary to the safety and well-being of society. Such is the boundary which separates the power of the government and the liberty of the citizen or subject in the political state.

  John C. Calhoun

  Government, Safety, Political

  John C. Calhoun's speech on the Oregon Bill, teachingamericanhistory.org. June 27, 1848.

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• There is never a day in any mans life when repentance is not essential to his well being in eternal progress.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Progress, Essentials, Repentance

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• The larger the government, the more our livings standards are reduced. We are fortunate as a civilization that the progress of free enterprise generally outpaces the regress of government growth, for, if that were not the case, we would be poorer each year - not just in relative terms, but absolutely poorer too. The market is smart and the government is dumb, and to these attributes do we owe the whole of our economic well-being.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Smart, Government, Years

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• The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden were ordained by God and were a necessary part of their-and our-earthly experience. President Howard W. Hunter, then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, taught: "We came to mortal life to encounter resistance. It was part of the plan for our eternal progress. Without temptation, sickness, pain, and sorrow, there could be no goodness, virtue, appreciation for well-being, or joy."

  Daniel K Judd

  Appreciation, Pain, Writing

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• Government has the power to help improve well-being

  David Cameron

  Government, Helping, Wells

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• Nothing is more destructive than the gap between people's perceptions of their own day-to-day economic well-being and what politicians and statisticians are telling them about the economy

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  People, Perception, Gaps

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• Justice and equity are twin Guardians that watch over men. From them are revealed such blessed and perspicuous words as are the cause of the well-being of the world and the protection of the nations.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Blessed, Men, Justice

  "Epistle to the Son of the Wolf". Book by Bahá'u'lláh, 1891.

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• It is not a sign of communal well-being when men turn to their government to execute all their business for them, but rather a sign of decay, as in the United States today. The state, indeed, is but one of the devices that a really healthy community sets up to manage its affairs.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Community, Healthy

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• The well-being of individual persons in any society varies inversely with the money at the disposal of the political class.

  Edmund A. Opitz

  Class, Political, Individual

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• Capitalism in the 19th century did not doom the worker to a life of perpetual poverty. Instead, they kept creating new and better-paying employments as the decades went by. They produced the wealth and rising income that resulted in the emergence of a phenomenon completely new to human history: a self-supporting and educated middle class that grew more and more as they lower classes bettered their economic well-being.

  Richard Ebeling

  Class, Creating, Self

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• The child welfare system - devised and run by liberal social workers, psychologists, and judges. . .Treats incompetent or abusive parents as its clients, and only secondarily considers the needs and well-being of the children involved.

  Mona Charen

  Running, Children, Judging

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• Being single isn't the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well.

  Renee Jones

  Marriage, Single, Lonely

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• The happiness of any society begins with the well being of the families that live in it.

  Kofi Annan

  Family, Happiness, Society

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• Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well being of others, including animals, must be an essential part of our own quest for happiness and well being. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a tool to create peace on Earth.

  Sharon Gannon

  Success, Powerful, Yoga

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• Anxiety checks learning. A feeling of well being and respect stimulates an alert mind.

  Eda LeShan

  Worry, Anxiety, Feelings

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