Psychological Benefits Quotes

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

The cost of praising someone is nil - but every psychological study shows the payoff is huge.

Good sex isn't just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.

I think there's a reason that horror appeals to teens. There's a lot of useful lessons to take away from reading horror. We get to be scared in the comfort and safety of our own homes. We can put the book down if we get too scared, and no one will ever know if we decide not to pick it up again.

The two best things you can do for a person is have sex or make them laugh.

We all have our issues, no one gets away from facing their own issues, so that we can advance. Nothing is given lightly, and everything has a repercussion, as you're evolving. And, if anything, the sport itself is a great training, not only physically, but the mental discipline that it requires. The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids, and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor. It's amazing the spirituality that you get as a result of practicing and enjoying the sport. That's another plus.

Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.

It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet.

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

Unhappy business men, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.

The spiritual uplift, the goodwill, cheerfulness and optimism that accompanies every expedition to the outdoors is the peculiar spirit that our people need in times of suspicion and doubt...No other organized joy has values comparable to the outdoor experience.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

People use music as a utensil to better themselves.

Music is important for one's health.

Running is a quick trigger for a good mood. The great thing about endorphins, you don't have to be in great shape to get them.

Ultimately, the joy of sports is social and psychological, both in the ballpark and around a television on Super Bowl Sunday.

Never has there been a close study of how necessary to a man are the experiences which we clumsily call aesthetic

Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

Thinking happy thoughts literally creates a positive chemical change in the brain which stimulates both positive physical and psychological benefits.

Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.

Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and urge us on to deeper and more complex forms of knowing.

The essential argument in the book, 'Art as Therapy,' is that art enjoys such financial and cultural prestige that it's easy to forget the confusion that persists about what it's really for.

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.

I go running. I go into nature. I really alleviate lot of emotional stress, any kind of stress I'm going through - exercise is my favorite medicine.

I think safely experiencing fear by watching a horror movie makes real life a little less frightening.