Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships, and accomplishment in your life.
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I only go out to get a fresh appetite for being alone. —Lord Byron (1813, by Thomas Phillips; Public Domain)
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. —Søren Kierkegaard (1840 sketch by his cousin; Public Domain)
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise. —Cato the Elder (Public Domain)
On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use. —Epictetus, Greek Philosopher, 55 AD – 135 AD (Public Domain)
Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. —Voltaire (1724, by Nicolas de Largillière; Public Domain) It took me a number of obstinate decades to figure this...
It is an interesting facet of the human condition that the less people know, the more answers they are willing to share. —Mike Hazell (Image licensed by Penn Wealth Pub.) Having been an...
I have had my results for a long time, but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them. —Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician and physicist (1840, by Christian Albrecht Jensen; Public Domain)
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. —François de La Rochefoucauld (Image licensed by Penn Wealth Pub.)
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Image licensed by Penn Wealth Pub.)
Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. — Epicurus, Greek philosopher, 3rd/4th century BC (Image licensed by Penn Wealth Pub.)
Sustainability (suh-stey-nuh-bil-i-tee) A board’s aggregate effort to portray their company as an environmental organization in order to sustain their own roles and salaries at the firm. —The...
The simple virtues of willingness, readiness, alertness and courtesy will carry a person farther than mere intelligence. — Henry Pomeroy Davison (Image licensed by Penn Wealth Pub.)
The strength of one’s virtue should not be measured by their special exertions, but by their habitual acts. — Blaise Pascal (Image licensed by Penn Wealth Pub.)
During a very busy life I have often been asked, ‘How did you manage to do it all?’ The answer is very simple: It is because I did everything promptly. — Sir Richard Tangye, renowned British...
Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future. — William...
Some people see things that are and ask, “Why?” Some people dream of things that never were and ask, “Why not?” Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that. — George Carlin...
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. — Henri Frédéric Amiel (Image licensed by Penn...
There will always be a Frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand. — Charles F. Kettering, American inventor (Image licensed by Penn Wealth Pub.)
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and for growing is to simply do more. — Washington Irving (1809, by John Wesley Jarvis; Public Domain) Washington Irving was a prolific...
Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous; never be discouraged. Do not blame anybody else for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval...
