Quotes about Well-being

The way you treat a child, from the time that child is born, is what sets them up to either succeed or struggle. What you are really saying is, how you were loved informs the way your important neural networks are shaped, especially those core regulatory networks we

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace- a connection to what matters.

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world—and loses his health?

I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms. (pg. 146, Health is Membership)

There are in America about fifty million people who, from time to time, set up chemical explosions in their internal economy in the hope that good health will follow. The worst about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary.

wisdom involves using our powerful intellect to recognize the consequences of our actions and to think of the well-being of the whole.

The program—which is all about taking care of people so they are better able to care for

When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

Most of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well.

An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.

Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there.