Wellbeing Quotes - Page 3

• Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

  Diane Abbott

  Missing, Debate, Mental Health

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• Design is coming to grips with one’s real lifestyle, one’s real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one’s wellbeing.

  Albert Hadley

  Real, Design, Together

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• Like every big organisation these days, the BBC is obsessed with the wellbeing of those who set foot on its premises. Studios must display warning notices if there is real glass on the set, and the other day I was presented with a booklet explaining how to use a door. I am not kidding.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Real, Glasses, Doors

  Jeremy Clarkson (2004). “The world according to Clarkson”

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• First, the federal government, one of the fundamental responsibilities that it has is to protect the nation's health and wellbeing. And this [Zika virus] is a threat to public health in the United States. It is a very serious disease.

  Marco Rubio

  Responsibility, Government, United States

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• We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and ironic self-doubt; culture means a form of life that is customary, collective, passionate, spontaneous, unreflective and arational.

  Terry Eagleton

  Mean, Reflection, Self

  "Culture conundrum" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2008.

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• For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.

  Quentin Bryce

  Spiritual, Long, Important

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• Let us not forget that we have two governmental reserve funds: the Reserve Fund and the National Wellbeing Fund that represent together $100 billion.

  Vladimir Putin

  Two, Together, Forget

  Source: thesaker.is

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• Prayer and contemplation are both exercises in concentration. The normal deluge of conscious thought is restricted and the mind is brought to one conscious area of operation. The results are those you find in any concentrative practice: deep calm, a physiological slowing of the metabolism and a sense of peace and wellbeing

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Spiritual, Prayer, Exercise

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• We need a price on carbon that accurately reflects its real costs on our society and our wellbeing.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Real, Needs, Cost

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• The default assumption is that - financial crises aside - growth will continue indefinitely. Not just for the poorest countries, where a better quality of life is undeniably needed, but even for the richest nations where the cornucopia of material wealth adds little to happiness and is beginning to threaten the foundations of our wellbeing.

  Tim Jackson

  Country, Growth, Quality

  Tim Jackson (2016). “Prosperity Without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow”, p.21, Taylor & Francis

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• Before 2003, none of us knew which part of the country was Sunni and which part was Shi'a. This was something new to Iraq and we are reaping the results at this point. Women's wellbeing has paid the price.

  Yanar Mohammed

  Country, Iraq, Something New

  "Iraq's female citizens: prisoners of war". Interview with Jennifer Allsopp, www.opendemocracy.net. April 26, 2015.

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• The essence of power is the knowledge that what you do is going to have an effect not just an immediate but perhaps a lifelong effect on the happiness and wellbeing of millions of people and so I think the essence of power is to be conscious of what it can mean for others.

  Bob Hawke

  Leadership, Mean, Thinking

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• If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be shared by all; the sciences will be on a smaller scale but ignorance will be less common; opinions will be less vigorous and habits gentler; you will notice more vices and fewer crimes.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Ignorance, Vices, Aristocracy

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Introduction, 1835.

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• As an engineer, I understood that the natural world operated according to fixed laws. Through my studies, I came to realize that there were, likewise, laws that govern human wellbeing. It seemed to me that these laws are fundamental not only to the wellbeing of societies, but also to the miniature societies of organizations. Indeed, that is what we found when we began to apply these principles systematically at Koch Industries. Through our observation of how they could create prosperity in an organization, I began to systematize my beliefs into Market-Based Management.

  Charles Koch

  Law, Organization, Principles

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• There isn't any wall, however high, however wide or however big, whatever it is made from, that can bar you from achieving a better life. There isn't any wall or pit that is in front of you to stop you from achieving a future of wellbeing.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Wall, Bars, Pits

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's speech as the guest of honour at the dinner hosted by Felipe Calderon at the National Palace in Mexico City, July 16, 2007.

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• The greatest contribution we can make to the wellbeing of those in our lives is to have peace in our own hearts. When our hearts are filled with gratitude and our minds are brimming with enthusiasm, everyone we encounter leaves our space feeling a little bit lighter than when they entered it.

  David Simon

  Gratitude, Heart, Space

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• The Nazi leaders….treated Germany like a conquered land, a colony to be used and abused without consideration, to be exploited to the full, and its national spirit, happiness and wellbeing to be sedulously ignored

  Sebastian Haffner

  Land, Used And Abused, Leader

  Sebastian Haffner (2005). “Germany: Jekyll and Hyde : an eyewitness analysis of Nazi Germany”

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• It is now well understood that humans ultimately depend on the health of the planet for their wellbeing.

  Peter Garrett

  Environment, Planets, Wells

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• The fact that so many people choose to live in ways that narrow the community of fate to a very limited set of others and to define the rest as threatening to their way of life and values is deeply worrying because this contemporary form of tribalism, and the ideologies that support it, enable them to deny complex and more crosscutting mutual interdependencies-local, national, and international-and to elude their own role in creating long-term threats to their own wellbeing and that of others.

  Margaret Levi

  Fate, Creating, Long

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• There is no more important measure of a people than how carefully and faithfully they attend to the wellbeing of their children. The CJC has it right. True justice begins today with the children, or there is no hope of justice tomorrow for the world.

  Barry Nolan

  Children, People, Justice

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• We are the creatives with teeth. We know ideas are more important than our personal wellbeing.

  Kanye West

  Ideas, Important, Teeth

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• It's very important that we expand our use of clean energy and make a long-term commitment to it. Biodiesel and ethanol are better for the environment and for the air we breathe. The use of biodiesel is a positive step toward minimizing pollutive emissions and greenhouse gases. By focusing on school buses, we can affect the health and wellbeing of the people most susceptible to that pollution - our children - today.

  Julia Roberts

  Children, School, Commitment

  "(PRN) Julia Roberts Joins Earth Biofuels, Inc. as Spokesperson and Advisory Board Member". www.chron.com. July 18, 2006.

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• Greece is at a crucial crossroads. The choices that are made and the policies that are enforced will have a decisive impact on the wellbeing of Greeks. The way forward will not be easy but the problems can be solved, and will be solved, if there is unity, co-operation and consensus.

  Lucas Papademos

  Way Forward, Impact, Choices

  "Lucas Papademos to lead Greece's interim coalition government" by Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2011.

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• There has maybe been a poor - a misunderstanding or statements that have maybe hurt, unfortunately. The Mexicans have felt offended by what has been said [by Donald Trump]. But I am certain that his genuine interest is in building a relationship that will provide our mutual societies improved wellbeing.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Hurt, Building, Poor

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Food is love, for my body, wellbeing, and the animals that go unheard every day.

  Margaret Chapman

  Animal, Body, Unheard

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