Tom Rath Quotes

If you're satisfied with your social life, according to psychologists, you tend to be satisfied with life in general.

When you ask people what affects their wellbeing most, they think of health and wealth.

Connections with other people affect not only the quality of our lives but also our survival.

When it comes to creating emotional wellbeing, we are only going to achieve this, I believe, if we help each other in that effort. Part of that is reaching out and building social connections in people who may not always have the social connections or the support that they need.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it's not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.

It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

To me, wealth is the peace of mind you have, your family, your friends, your colleagues. Everything else is just money, and it really is funny how people pay so much attention to that.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

My three best friends get me through everything: I need cute jeans, my kids are driving me crazy, I'm throwing a party, whatever. They keep me dialed in.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

We have children to pursue other elements of well-being. We want meaning in life. We want relationships.

Since I turned 50, I've had the best year of my life and I now throw as much effort into the social side of my life as I do work - more so now than ever before.

I feel like I've had so many successes on so many levels, even if it is just my relationships with my friends.

It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.

It turns out that people who are more socially connected to family, to friends, to community, are happier, they're physically healthier, and they live longer than people who are less well connected.

I've actually read that isolation is the enemy, so why do that to myself?

Economic resources are not all that matter in people's lives.

Having a lot of friends and family around you - that's all a part of wellness.

A good life depends on the strength of our relationships with family, friends, neighbours, colleagues and strangers.

Wellbeing is about the combination of our love for what we do each day, the quality of our relationships, the security of our finances, the vibrancy of our physical health, and the pride we take in what we have contributed to our communities. Most importantly, it’s about how these five elements interact.

In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to persuade well-meaning helpers that solitude can be as therapeutic as emotional support.

One of the things that you see ancient philosophers and contemporary scientists agree on is that strong relationships are a key to happiness, maybe the key to happiness. People who have more strong relationships in their lives just feel happier.

The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of your relationships.

Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.