Wellbeing Quotes - Page 2

• What keeps things going, what sustains families, what makes work meaningful, what contributes to our wellbeing and what really connects us to Nature is cooperation

  Ed Mayo

  Meaningful, Future, Vision

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• This disease of being “busy” (and let’s call it what it is, the dis-ease of being busy, when we are never at ease) is spiritually destructive to our health and wellbeing. It saps our ability to be fully present with those we love the most in our families, and keeps us from forming the kind of community that we all so desperately crave.

  Omid Safi

  Community, Sap, Ease

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• What's the third metric beyond money and power? I think it's a combination of wellbeing and wisdom. Because the problem also with defining success just in terms of money and power means that people feel that they have to work around the clock, burn out, and the result is people making terrible decisions.

  Arianna Huffington

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "The Tavis Smiley SHow", www.pbs.org. March 12, 2013.

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• The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations with a planetary system of local living economies comprised of human-scale enterprise rooted in the communities they serve and locally owned by the people whose wellbeing depends on them.

  David Korten

  Suicide, Goal, People

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• People who have at least three or four very close friendships are healthier, have higher wellbeing, and are more engaged in their jobs. But the absence of any close friendships can lead to boredom, loneliness, and depression.

  Tom Rath

  Jobs, Loneliness, People

  Tom Rath, James K. Harter, Jim Harter (2010). “Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• When the human being hears music, he has a sense of wellbeing, because these tones harmonize with what he has experienced in the world of his spiritual home.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Spiritual, Home, World

  Rudolf Steiner, Alice Wulsin (1983). “The inner nature of music and the experience of tone: selected lectures from the work of Rudolf Steiner”, Rudolf Steiner Pr

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• The female body was designed as a source of pleasure, fertility, movement, strength and wellbeing.

  Christiane Northrup

  Female, Movement, Body

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• When we get at least six hours of daily social time, it increases our wellbeing and minimizes stress and worry. The six hours includes time at work, at home, on the telephone, talking to friends, sending e-mail, and other communication.

  Tom Rath

  Stress, Communication, Home

  Tom Rath, James K. Harter, Jim Harter (2010). “Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Once you have access to the source of creation within you, your health and wellbeing will naturally be taken care of.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Taken, Perception

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• When you're in government, of course, you have protection and you have people who are looking out for your wellbeing, but you can't live in a state of fear. If you do, you're not going to do your job very well and you're going to give yourself high blood pressure, which probably isn't worth it.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Jobs, Government, Blood

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.

  Julian Baggini

  Good Life, Notion, Values

  "Can happiness be measured?". Interview with Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2012.

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• Eros is not tranquil-it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.

  François Lelord

  Falling In Love, Expression, Giving

  "Ideas for modern living: love" by François Lelord, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2011.

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• The sense of wellbeing! Its often with us When we are young, but then it's not noticed; And by the time one has grown to consciousness It comes less often.

  T. S. Eliot

  Health, Consciousness, Young

  T.S. Eliot (2013). “The Elder Statesman”, p.27, Faber & Faber

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• I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating.

  Andy Stern

  White, Economic, Workers

  "Andy Stern: The exit interview". Interview with Ezra Klein, voices.washingtonpost.com. April 14, 2010.

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• 60% of workers surveyed said if their employer took action to support the mental wellbeing of all staff, they would feel more loyal, motivated, committed and be likely to recommend their workplace as a good place to work.

  Paul Farmer

  Support, Loyal, Action

  "ADVO Group interviews Paul Farmer, Chief Executive, Mind". news.advogroup.co.uk. May 16, 2013.

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• Trust is essential for our social wellbeing. Without trusting the good will of others we retreat into bureaucracy, rules and demands for more law and order. Trust is based on positive experiences with other people an it grows with use. We need to trust that others are going be basically reasonable beings.

  Eva Cox

  Trust, Order, Law

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• We must understand what our idea of wealth is. Is it just about more buildings, more machines, more cars, more of everything? More and more is death. In the most affluent societies in the world, for example in the United States of America, a significant percentage of the population is on anti-depressants on a regular basis. If you just withdraw one particular medication from the market, almost half the nation will go crazy. That is not wellbeing. Generally, an American citizen has everything that anyone would dream of.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Dream, Crazy, Ideas

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• To strive for the common prosperity and happiness of all nations, as well as the security and wellbeing of our subjects, is the solemn obligation which has been handed down by our imperial ancestors and which lies close to our heart.

  Hirohito

  Lying, Heart, Common

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• I'm not interested in the wellbeing of society because society is a big lie. Where is society? I only see individual beings and only the individual can grow. Each one is enormous and tremendous in his own way-each one is unique.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Wisdom, Lying, Unique

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• Each of the seven chakras are governed by spiritual laws, principles of consciousness that we can use to cultivate greater harmony, happiness, and wellbeing in our lives and in the world.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Law, Seven Chakras

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• One of the most important tasks is to broaden the energy supply ... Energy determines today international security and social as well as economic development in many respects. In reality the wellbeing of millions of people is directly dependent in energy security.

  Vladimir Putin

  Reality, People, Important

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• The world of life, of spontaneity, the world of dawn and sunset and starlight, the world of soil and sunshine, of meadow and woodland, of hickory and oak and maple and hemlock and pineland forests, of wildlife dwelling around us, of the river and its wellbeing--all of this [is] the integral community in which we live.

  Thomas Berry

  Nature, Sunset, Sunshine

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• Wilderness has become one of the world's fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable. Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential to the wellbeing of humanity. We are made of it and fashioned by it...our psychological beings resonate with it.

  Bob Brown

  Oil, Humanity, Gold

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• Your true friends dont shy away from keeping you in check because your wellbeing is more important to them than even your friendship and they'd rather risk offending you than watch you harm yourself.

  Omar Suleiman

  True Friend, Offending, Risk

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Jan 28, 2013

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• When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Strong, Children, Impact

  "Iain Duncan Smith outlines yardsticks for success of social justice policy" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2012.

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