100 Ways to Change Your Life Quotes

“My all-time favorite mantra: “My body is for living, not looking.” It’s for cuddling my cat, flooding me with pleasure, enjoying a favorite book, traveling to places that fill me with awe, laughing with my friends until my stomach hurts. My body is the vessel through which I experience life, not the lens through which people experience me. It was not made to serve as eye candy for other people, particularly when that comes at the detriment of my own experience. It was made to allow me to live. WANT TO DIVE DEEPER?”
― Liz Moody, 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success

“Essentially, chronically wanting to do something and not doing it can cause the type of low-grade background stress that leads to burnout, health issues, and generally just feeling awful.”
― Liz Moody, 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success

“And death in itself, however terrifying and horrifying it might feel, can also create meaning in living today. What would you do if you knew you only had twenty days to live?”
― Liz Moody, 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success

“In this groundbreaking study, her team found that the single most important factor (above gender, income, social background, loneliness, and functional health) in determining longevity was how people felt about and approached aging.”
― Liz Moody, 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success