Well Being Quotes - Page 26

• The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.

  Voltaire

  Hatred, Prosperity, Greedy

  "'Essai sur les Moeurs et l'Esprit des Nations' ('Essay on the Manners of Nations')". Book by Voltaire. Introduction, XLII, 1756.

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• Mr. Anwar is a respected colleague and a man of integrity, who in his capacity as finance minister showed strong dedication to enhancing the financial well-being of the Malaysian people.

  Paul Martin

  Strong, Integrity, Men

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• The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love.

  Gary Chapman

  Love Is, Want, One You Love

  Gary Chapman (2010). “The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set”, p.28, Moody Publishers

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• What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about 'right' and 'wrong,' or 'good' and 'evil,' and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?

  Sam Harris

  Our World, Evil, Worry

  Sam Harris (2011). “The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• It seems to me patently obvious that we can no more respect and tolerate vast differences in notions of human well-being than we can respect or tolerate vast differences in the notions about how disease spreads, or in the safety standards of buildings and airplanes.

  Sam Harris

  Motivation, Inspiration, Airplane

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• When we promote the well-being of others God has placed in our lives our service glorifies God.

  Elizabeth George

  Wells, Glorify, Our Lives

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• Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.

  Sam Harris

  Facts, Conscious, Wells

  "Sam Harris: Can Science Determine Human Values?". library.fora.tv. November 10, 2010.

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• No truth is more clearly taught in the Volume of Inspiration, nor any more fully demonstrated by the experience of all ages, than that a deep sense and a due acknowledgment of the governing providence of a Supreme Being and the accountableness of men to Him as the searcher of hearts and righteous distributor of rewards and punishments are conducive equally to the happiness and rectitude of individuals and to the well being of communities.

  John Adams

  Inspiration, Heart, Men

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 9: Letters and State Papers 1799 - 1811”, p.135, Jazzybee Verlag

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• John is very aware of the responsibilities that come with being a landowner. I also feel that way. We both see landownership as a personal investment, but also an opportunity to contribute to the well-being of our planet and its inhabitants.

  Ted Turner

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Land

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• Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.

  Sam Harris

  Mind, Suffering, Facts

  Sam Harris (2011). “The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

  Francis Bacon

  Church, Guarantees, Literature

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• I really believe that an awakening, a greater perspective on our lives and existence is happening. It's really the firing of archetypes that are already built into our brains, we just are able to awaken to a point where we can see a greater beauty in the world, a greater connection and sense of well being. This is what the mystics speak about. The insights fire us up into a greater consciousness on the planet. So it is a greater consciousness at the same time and a greater awareness of our spiritual nature. That is what the 'aha' is.

  James Redfield

  Spiritual, Believe, Fire

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• Perhaps we've invented conspiracies for our own psychic well-being, to heal ourselves.

  Don DeLillo

  Psychics, Conspiracy, Heal

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.51, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself. To me it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.

  Goldie Hawn

  Heart, Thinking, Self

  "Goldie Hawn Talks ‘MindUP’ and Her Mission to Bring Children Happiness". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2011.

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• I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Country, Art, Sorry

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• When you make music you do it for the right reason: love. Love is the desire of well being, desire to heal the wounded, the person in pain, the person who has problems - to touch the person who needs love. The love inside you manifests through sound, vibration and embraces everyone in the room.

  Pepe Romero

  Pain, Love Is, Desire

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• There is a dilemma, to reconcile three time scales: in the short term, the economy; in the middle range, global well-being generally; and, in the long range, the environment.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Long, Three, Environment

  "Magic Mountain" by Nick Paumgarten, www.newyorker.com. March 5, 2012.

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• In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside force which, however vigilant one supposes it to be, can never answer all social needs. Man, thus accustomed to seek his well-being only through his own efforts, raises himself in his own opinion as he does in the opinion of others; his soul becomes larger and stronger at the same time.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Thinking, Support

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• In any civilized society the most important task is achieving a proper balance between freedom and order. In wartime, reason and history both suggest that this balance shifts in favor... of the government's ability to deal with conditions that threaten the national well-being.

  William Rehnquist

  Order, Government, Important

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• John Calvin's theology emphasizes the sanctity of conscience, the sanctity of companionate marriage, and the obligation of those in power to attend to the well-being of the people in general, especially the poor. Interestingly, for the interpretation of Hamlet, for example, he forbids even the thought of revenge. This is not the Calvin of myth, but when the Elizabethans read him there was no such myth, nor would there be now, if he were read.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Revenge, People, Example

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• More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Concern For Others, Mind, Source

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• R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not being more than, say, five minutes late. It is therefore clearly as almost infinite variable figure according to circumstances, since the first two factors vary not only with speed as an absolute, but also with awareness of the third factor. Unless handled with tranquility, this equation can result in considerable stress, ulcers, and even death.

  Douglas Adams

  Stress, Two, Variables

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.111, Pan Macmillan

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• Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well being.

  Aldous Huxley

  Passion, Feelings, Height

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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• The aim of education is to develop resources in the child that will contribute to his well-being as long as life endures; to develop power of self-mastery that he may never be a slave to indulgence or other weaknesses, to develop [strong] manhood, beautiful womanhood that in every child and every youth may be found at least the promise of a friend, a companion, one who later may be fit for husband or wife, an exemplary father or a loving intelligent mother, one who can face life with courage, meet disaster with fortitude, and face death without fear.

  David O. McKay

  Beautiful, Mother, Strong

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• True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Love, Marriage, Romance

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