Andrew Weil Quotes

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

I think if you're an unhappy person, you're always going to be an unhappy person. You're probably going to be less unhappy if your business is doing well, if I'm being honest.

I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice... We need to make the choice to be happy in a particular situation, just as it is, and at a given moment.

I don't pretend to be happy all the time. I think to be human is to be happy and unhappy by turns. But I have a great capacity to enjoy myself, and it seems to grow as I get older.

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

I never could be good when I was not happy.

I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that's not always the case when you're married.

One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you're sad.

I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

My appetite for self-destruction and misery is greatly diminished. I'm not interested in being unhappy.

If I laugh a couple of times a day, I'm doing good. People think it's their God-given right to be happy, and it's just not. It's something you've got to work at. I like to paint the human condition, and the human condition is not smiles and happy people.

When I began my tenure as surgeon general, I did not intend to focus on emotional well-being.

I work in an industry in which we're all quite vulnerable, I think, to mental health.

Mental health really is a search to be happy, I think that's what people want in life - and if you're happy you're winning.

People think you should be happy all the time but you can't.

Chemically, if you are not happy, your body will not look or be happy.

Being happy, being healthy, is the most important thing.

Nobody can be happy all the time, and if you aim to be, ultimately you will never be happy.

It's one of the central problems of American culture: telling you if you're younger, more beautiful, more famous, whatever, that then you'll be happy.

And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.

Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication.

If we were never depressed we would not be alive - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation. Whenever you examine yourself, take into your capacity for depression.