Jane McGonigal Quotes

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs.

Intimacy and community buffer stress.

Stress is the spice of life.

Keep going on hikes, keep having your friends in your life, keep that downtime sacred as well because as hard as you work in any job, it's really nice to have the relaxing de-stressors. Stress is the worst thing. That's the ultimate demise of any good thing.

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.

I know firsthand how critical support systems are.

Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh.

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

I respond to about a quarter of comments. It's a good barometer of my mental health - when I'm healthy and busy, I don't read them.

We can boost our immune systems by strengthening our social networks and decreasing stress.

The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy.

Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.

A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.

I also think stress is related to control. When you're in charge of your life, you tend to not care about losing control of things that don't really matter like traffic jams.

Social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

My passion is to help people live lives with less stress.

People who attend support groups who have been diagnosed with a life-challenging illness live on average twice as long after diagnosis as people who don't.

I've been one of those people that hold on to a little bit more stress than others. People take certain situations a little bit differently.

Writing about joyful experiences for just three days can improve people's moods and decrease their visits to health centers a full three months later.

We have seen that two heads are better than one when dealing with a mental health problem.

If I didn't have my profession, I think I would be sitting in a nuthouse. But I have been unceasingly at work, and this has been very healthy for me. So I had no need for therapy.

Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.