Quotes, aphorisms and sentences on well-being, or on that particular aspect that involves each individual in his integrity, influencing the quality of his life within the society to which he belongs.
Wellness quotes
- Well-being is the parent of luxury and laziness, and the poverty of narrow-mindedness and vice, and both of discontent. (Plato)
- For a little wellness, we must not betray the truth and deny ourselves. (Jean Jacques Rousseau)
- God gave us life ... it's up to us to give ourselves to the good life! (Oscar Wilde)
- It is not the well-being that one seeks, but only enough to preserve one's dignity, to work without interference, to be generous, sincere and independent. (William Somerset Maugham)
- Greater well-being comes from not having great needs. (Franz Werfel)
- Well-being is not for those who own it, but for those who enjoy it. (Benjamin Franklin)
- A good way of life is to do the things you really like. (Crispin Glover)
- What did Jesus truly bring, if he did not bring peace to the world, well-being for all, a better world? What did it bring? God. He brought God. (Pope Benedict XVI)
- You can only do well if you feel well. (Denis Waitley)
- Nature takes care of your well-being at all times. She has no other purpose. Don't resist her. (Henry David Thoreau)
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- There is only one remedy to feel good: you have to learn to be satisfied with what you have and not to always expect what is missing at that moment. (Theodor Fontane)
- The well-being of the people is the most important law. (Guide)
- The state of well-being is perhaps the most altruistic system that the animal kingdom has ever known. (Richard Dawkins)
- If growth automatically produces well-being, we should have lived in a true paradise since time immemorial. Instead, it is hell that threatens us. (Serge Latouche)
- The essence of compassion is the desire to alleviate the suffering of others and support their well-being. (Dalai Lama)
- Living well is an act of intelligence, with which we choose things that have a pleasant taste rather than those that don't. (Anthelme Brillat Savarin)
- Ensuring the well-being of someone who works for you does not just mean sending them a happy birthday card, or telling them how good they are and what a good team we form. It means guaranteeing him a sufficient salary, respectful treatment and recognition of his contribution to work. (Joe Bastianich)
- It is not well-being that stands in the way of liberation but attachment to well-being, not the enjoyment of pleasant things but the ardent desire to have them. (Fritz Schumacher)
- With the increase in well-being, everyone realizes, sooner or later, that they have something to defend. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
- If one day they tell me that in my work I have contributed to the well-being and happiness of my colleague, then I will be satisfied. (George Westinghouse)
- The love of the family and the admiration of friends is much more important than well-being and any privilege. (Charles Kuralt)
- What every man fears is the unknown. When this scenario presents itself, you will willingly give up your rights in exchange for the guarantee of your well-being guaranteed by the World Government. (Henry Kissinger)
- The two big tests to test someone's personality are well-being and poverty. (Charles Austin Beard)
- I will say this about adversity: people seem to be able to endure it, and this is more than I can say for well-being. (Kin Hubbard)
- Freedom produces well-being and well-being destroys freedom. (Henry Demarest Lloyd)
- Want not to live long but to live well. (Benjamin Franklin)
- For me, happiness means first of all being well. (Francoise Sagan)
- The true laws of God are the laws of our well-being. (Samuel Butler)
- For me, success means being well, living well. (Treat Williams)
- Physical fitness is not only one of the most important requirements for a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
- Desiring nothing, one possesses everything. (Ippolito Nievo)
- Generosity creates well-being. (Kevin Kelly)
- The class and the goods never give men satisfaction. (Christian Furchtegott Gellert)
- Well-being will never be achieved by those who seek it directly ... it comes only as a collateral product of providing a useful service.(Henry Ford)
- Satisfaction is the stone of the wise. Satisfaction turns everything he touches into gold. (Benjamin Franklin)
Wellness aphorisms
- I define joy as a constant sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection with what matters. (Oprah Winfrey)
- I am easily satisfied with what is really the best. (Winston Churchill)
- Well-being is the product of man's ability to think. (Ayn Rand)
- A man who does not find satisfaction in himself will seek her in vain elsewhere. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld)
- The United Nations for the moment, and the world government at the end, should pursue a single purpose: the guarantee of security, tranquility and well-being for all humanity. (Albert Einstein)
- The improvement of our lifestyle is more important than its diffusion. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not do this, no physical force can permanently oppose it. (Charles Augustus Lindbergh)
- Children and dogs are necessary for the well-being of the country such as Wall Street and the railway. (Harry Truman)
- The well-being of each of us basically depends on the well-being of all of us. (Teddy Roosevelt)
- In the light of eternity we will see that what we wanted would have been fatal for us, and that what we wanted to avoid was essential for our well-being. (F.Fénelon)
- You can't be comfortable with others, if you're not comfortable with yourself. (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
- The good we insure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is insured to all of us and incorporated into our common life. (L. Jane Addams)
- Dedicating yourself to a life of well-being is not a luxury, it is a necessity. You will never have enough time, you must find time. (Oprah Winfrey)
- Do not desire too much and you will be the richest man in the world. (Miguel De Cervantes)
- Life is not about living, but about living well. (Marco Valerio Marziale)
- Well-being is a great teacher; adversity is much more. (William Hazlitt)
- Anyone who wants to feel good must not leave their home. (George Herbert Di Cherbury)
- Virtue begins with well-being. (Honoré De Balzac)
- The brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel well. (Carl Sagan)
- Nobody cares about living well, but about living long. (Seneca)
- I feel my best when I'm happy. (Winona Ryder)
- Nature only cares about our existence, not our well-being. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
- If you have nothing else to do, look at yourself and see if there is something at hand that you can improve! It may bring you well-being, although it is easier to make you happy. (George Matthew Adams)
- Well-being is the transition from poverty to discontent. (Helmar Nahr)
- It is not necessary to take maximum account of living as such, but living well. (Plato)
- Worried only about making a fortune, men cannot grasp the close bond that unites everyone's well-being with everyone's prosperity. (Alexis De Tocqueville)
- Well-being and happiness have never appeared to me as the absolute goal. (Albert Einstein)
- Our condition is good at the time of birth; it is our fault if we make it worse. Nature has acted in such a way that it doesn't take long to live well: everyone is able to make themselves happy. (Seneca)
- Not the life, but the good life, must be mainly appreciated. (Socrates)
- The free soul is rare, but when you see it you recognize it, especially because you feel a sense of well-being when you are close to it. (Charles Bukowski)
- The true well-being of a man is the good he does in this world. (Sahih Bukhari Hadith)
- Justicialism, as economic doctrine, realizes the social economy, putting capital at the service of the economy and the latter at the service of social well-being. (Juan Peron)
- Living well and living honestly is one. (Plato)
- The world fights for well-being, the Church fights for salvation, even if both of them work together to overcome misery. (Hans Urs Von Balthasar)
- In the reality in which we live, the only thing that matters is the success of the economic system, while the last thing that matters is the well-being of all men. (Pope francesco)
- Worried only about making a fortune, men cannot grasp the close bond that unites everyone's well-being with everyone's prosperity. (Alexis De Tocqueville)
Phrases about well-being
- Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, just as extreme self-concern is the enemy of well-being. (John Updike)
- It is a common popular mistake to assume that those who complain to the public louder are the most concerned about his well-being. (Edmund Burke)
- Well-being is built ... one thought at a time ... (Doug Firebaugh)
- People from both political parties have long recognized that jobless well-being creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty because it deprives people of their self-esteem. (Mitt Romney)
- True well-being is not needing anything. (Gary Snyder)
- You are never too young or too old for the knowledge of happiness. At any age it is nice to take care of the well-being of our soul. (Epicurus)
- How good happiness is for man! It seems that one wants to give his heart, his joy. And joy is contagious! (Fedor Michajlovic Dostoevskij)
- It proves to be very solid that government in which the administrated enjoy wellness. (Tito Livio)
- The gods have not made it lawful for a man to have prosperity if he does not know what he wants and does not try to do it. (Xenophon)
- Take a method and play it for at least three days. If it will give you a particular feeling of affinity, of well-being, if it will give you the particular feeling that this is for you, you will have to become serious. (Osho Rajeneesh)
- Learning is the beginning of well-being. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Research and learning is where the miracle process begins. (Jim Rohn)
- A nation that asks its government only to maintain order is already a slave to the bottom of its heart, a slave to its well-being, and the man destined to enslave it can present itself at any moment. (Alexis De Tocqueville)
- It is not how much you have, but how much you enjoy tasting happiness. (Charles Haddon Spurgeon)
- The real and right end of political activity is the material and spiritual well-being of society, so that the rights and duties are respected and protected by all. (Pope John Paul II)
- Every economic or political theory or action you must strive to provide every inhabitant of the earth with the minimum well-being that allows you to live with dignity, in freedom, with the possibility of supporting a family, educating children, praising God and developing their human abilities. (Pope francesco)
- The most fatal of the combinations that can be created would be to combine socialism and absolutism; to unite people's aspirations to material well-being, with the dictatorship or concentration of all political and social power in the hands of the state. (Michail Bakunin)
- Receive well-being and prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let them go. (Marco Aurelio)
- If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of agi becomes the supreme well-being: he must abandon it. (Jean Cocteau)
- The worker of a modern city today benefits from material well-being superior to that of a nobleman of past centuries. (Ignazio Silone)
- The free soul is rare, but when you see it you recognize it, especially because you feel a sense of well-being when you are close to it. (Charles Bukowski)
- Well-being is a great teacher; adversity is much more. (William Hazlitt)
- The functioning of the heart is the heart of all operations. (Gerhard Uhlenbruck)
- Imagination is not the talent of some men but the well-being of every man. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
- Men spend their health to achieve economic well-being. Then they willingly spend all they have earned to return to health. (Mike Murdock)
- How much free time does anyone who does not pay attention to what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only cares about his own actions, taking care that they are just and holy, that is, in conformity with the conduct of a virtuous man. (Marco Aurelio)
- If we were able to give everyone the right amount of nutrition and exercise we would have found the way to health. (Hippocrates)
- I somehow reached excess without ever realizing when I was going through satisfaction. (Ashleigh Brilliant)
- Eat little at lunch and even less at dinner, that the health of the whole body is built in the laboratory of the stomach. (Miguel de Cervantes)
- Today more than ever, development sacrifices populations and their concrete and local well-being on the altar of abstract, deterritorialized "well-being". (Serge Latouche)
- Health is based on happiness: from embracing and being a clown to finding joy in family and friends, satisfaction in work and ecstasy in the nature of the arts. (Patch Adams)
- Do not desire too much and you will be the richest man in the world. (Miguel De Cervantes)
- Take good care of your body, it's the only place you have to live. (Jim Rohn)
- You cannot have a prosperous and happy society when most of its members are poor and unhappy. (Adam Smith)
