Well Being Quotes - Page 14

• I have the philosophy that I'm different. I have the body, the well-being and the experience. Now the teacher gets to show the student that he's worthy of the lesson. Let me show him through experience.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Teacher, Philosophy, Different

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• I think liberals have to come to terms with the market and embrace market mechanisms as the only way to run a society that produces widespread material well-being and respects individual rights and liberties.

  Douglas Massey

  Running, Thinking, Rights

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Markets, and the way they operate can't be frozen in time and place. A dynamic economy that is growing and increasing material well-being for a large number of people have to change over time.

  Douglas Massey

  Numbers, People, Frozen

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There are good intentions behind many peoples conversion to veganism, including an admirable devotion to the well-being of animals and a justified skepticism about the crap the USDA allows manufacturers to put in our food. But its hard to ignore the often sanctimonious nature of what some nutritionists view as an extremist way of eating.

  Julie Klausner

  Animal, Views, Way

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• Nakamura Tempu Sensei viewed the mind as a segment of the body that could not be seen and the body as the element of the mind that was observable. He also likened the mind and body to a stream, with the mind as the source flowing down to the body. Whatever we drop in the stream will be carried down by the current. In like manner, our thoughts will influence the body and our well being.

  H. E Davey

  Mind, Body, Elements

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• God's primary concerns have to do with your well-being, not your performance.

  Vinita Hampton Wright

  Concern, Wells, Performances

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• In an age in which economists take for granted that people equate well-being with consumption, increasing numbers of people seem willing to trade certain freedoms and material comforts for a sense of immutable order and the rapture of faith.

  Eugene Linden

  Order, Numbers, People

  Eugene Linden (1998). “The Future in Plain Sight: Nine Clues to the Coming Instability”

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• What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens?

  Ann Leckie

  Citizens, Wells, Civilisation

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• 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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• This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you will avail yourself of it for mutual happiness and well-being. Therefore, let us explain as often as possible, and particularly at the departure of life, that we base our faith on firm foundations, on Truth for putting into action our ideas which do not depend on fables and ideas which Science has long ago proven to be false.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Long Ago, Ideas, Sorrow

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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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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• Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its own nature, precarious and dependent on human will and caprice; but it is conformable to the constitution of man, as well as necessary to the well-being of society.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Liberty, Constitution

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.61

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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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• Although others may feel sorry for you, never feel sorry for yourself: it has a deadly effect on spiritual well-being. Recognize all problems, no matter how difficult, as opportunities for spiritual growth, and make the most of these opportunities.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Sorry, Opportunity

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.18, 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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• The first time I took LSD, it just blew everything away. I had such an incredible feeling of well-being.

  George Harrison

  Feelings, Firsts, Incredibles

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• As society is only possible if everyone, while living his own life, at the same time helps others to live; if every individual is simultaneously means and end; if each individual's well-being is simultaneously the condition necessary to the well-being of others, it is evident that the contrast between I and thou, means and end, automatically is overcome.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Helping Others, Overcoming

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.392, VM eBooks

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• I move very well. Being able to go at different types of players, that's where I have an advantage.

  LaMarcus Aldridge

  Moving, Player, Different

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• I don't think the American people had a clear picture of either Nixon or me. I think they thought that Nixon was a strong, decisive, tough-minded guy and that I was an idealist and antiwar guy who might not attach enough significance to the security of the country. The truth is, I was the guy with the war record, and my opposition to Vietnam was because I was interested in the nation's well-being.

  George McGovern

  Country, Strong, War

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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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