Quality of Life

by Paulo Coelho on October 5, 2009

Would you do a list of 5, 6 or 7 things that you should do to improve your quality of life?
If I think about myself, I think that shouldl stay less time in front of this monitor. Besides that I really care about my quality of life, walking in the fields, enjoying every single moment. I would love to hear your opinion because this can be very useful to other people.

Thank you so much for sharing.
Paulo

DON’T WORRY ABOUT YOUR ENGLISH. BUT IF YOU FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE, POST IN YOUR MOTHER TONGUE (PORTUGUES, ESPANOL, FRANÇAIS, ETC.).

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Gül December 20, 2011 at 9:51 pm

To go the way of love. Love is the most important essence of life.

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Patricia Alas October 14, 2011 at 4:56 am

Doing what make you happy is the most important thing in life.

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lise October 14, 2011 at 2:01 am

pour améliorer ma qualité de vie, j’essaie de vivre consciemment chaque minute, même si c’est pas toujours évident

de profiter de la nature, de faire de l’exercice et de prendre le temps de bien respirer

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Jackie noriega August 9, 2011 at 10:34 pm

1.- caminar lhora diaria2.-ir a la playa por lo menos 2 veces al mes. 3.-comer menos4.-salir con mis amigos mas a menudo.5.-reir un poco mas. 6.-preocuparme mas por los necesitados.7.-dormir mas.
Trato de ser justa conmigo misma en permitirme algunas cosas que antes no lo hacia y creanme a mejorado`mucho mi calidad de vida ,antes era muy pesada y pasaba enferma con frecuencia hoy incluso me siento mas jòven y bonita que antes

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Limited Page April 17, 2011 at 4:48 am

Quality of Life is choosing your path without NO REGRETS.

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lawrence May 10, 2011 at 10:47 pm

thats true but cant match our life

oksana May 27, 2011 at 10:10 am

мне уже 46 лет и в этом году я начала задумыватся о качестве моей жизни.я думаю что это ощущение счастья потерять это страшно жизнь теряет смысл душу терзают сомнения а правильно ли прожита жизнь и придумала что внутри меня живет 2 человечка черный-злой и белый-добрый.и как теперь мне кажется они старались игнорировать друг друга .не замечать иногда ненавидеть и я решила научить их полюбить друг друга крепко обнятся там внутри и сказать себе мы не можем жить друг без друга и если это согласие будет внутри тебя оно будет и наружи и ты увидишь мир другими глазами

Abhi Subedi April 9, 2011 at 5:57 am

the best quality of life is believe ourself.

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Naira Gasparyan March 22, 2011 at 2:58 pm

It is not always possible to change the quality of your life
Thanks to you and your blog i somehow managed to succeed in doing it.I’ve been against wasting one’s time with the internet, but there came hard times and i needed to talk as little as possible… I’m a very busy person,Ive got a husband and a son,I spent all my time on my family and work.I’m very sociable, I simply need communication, sharing opinions not connected with family and work. I hate gossiping since it teaches nothing.For me quality life means communication and travelling for cognition, for self improvement, making people around you happy, freedom of speech and action, self expression, acting the way you are.But in order to succeed you need your people’s assistance.Facing changes is challenging and discussing chores is hateful.We need to beautify life but disasters and others’ misfortunes make your life less bearable.Only living as part of nature makes one’s life harmonious.Every minute of your life should involve a piece of dedication and sacrifice.Quality life is always connected with spiritual achievements, for a woman also with bewitching looks and a mysterious spirit.Peace, harmony and beauty inward and outward, help to obtain knowledge and make us wiser

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mathilda March 4, 2011 at 8:25 am

i have somehow developed my own quality of life… personal experience, painful ones, will do that to you. i forgive easily, laugh more to the fullest, be independent, give others help without a second thought, never ever judge people, accept people as they are because everyone is unique, love deeply and it hurts…. sometimes, you do slip, nobody’s perfect after all.

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sanit June 22, 2011 at 2:46 pm

i think true quality of life is knowing your self deeply through connecting your self to what u love the most.i really love to play chess and meditate.every time i play chess or meditate i can connect to my inner state.they are the mediums through which i express my self to the fulliest.i think to get to the feel of deep connection to what u love the most is path to quality of life.

Dado January 5, 2011 at 4:26 am

Good question, I realy dont know where to start.. there are so many things..

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ashutosh patra March 2, 2011 at 10:06 pm

thanks friends… you all are absolutely right to find the perfect ways for improving the quality of life. i’m really speechless about your thinking skills.

some other things i can add in me for quality life

- seva (service)the needy without the hope of any return (it’s really powerful)

- inquisitive to know everything of the universe

- we have very less but very precious time. so it should be spend only for great proposals of life

- maximum meditation and dive inward for greatest findings of life

- thinking the (im)possible things everyday while i am only with me

- i’ve only one life it’s a very limited resource. i’ll make the best utilization of it.

Kamaleon March 4, 2011 at 12:38 am

I do care about the quality of my life. I grow every day by good or bad experiance, every humanbeeing I meet shares someting with me. I am not the same as 10 years ago, 5 year , not the same even as yesterday…

I often think I should improve a lot in my life, but even this thinking already is changing me…

To want change is great, but is this enough…
To take actions is the biggest challange for me.
So many excuses…and “I will start tommorow”.

I want to start know becouse this moment will never be mine again. This need to change in inside of me.
Dont hesitate. Do it! And keep doing it tommorow! and the day after tommorow…

bushrafa January 2, 2011 at 2:35 pm

for me the following few would work .. m already working on most of them
Get rid of inferiority complex(unfortunately still havent figured out how?)
pray alot
try to be efficient at work
help people withot wanting something from them in return
exercise,yoga or some sport.
love your family and spend quality time with them

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Chandan December 16, 2010 at 4:00 am

Quality of life– It should be like maintaining a balance between the inner soul and the nature. Both are co-coherently goes in a same way, Quality can be like we mend to overcome most of the Evils from our heart, It must be purposefully for the happiness and goodness of the human Kind, Suppose we have everything like Money, fame etc. But if we are not happy within our Soul, What’s then? So Quality comes within our own heart which reflects when we did our all attempts for the well being of every particle in the nature and We then Combines our soul with the outside world.

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nardocsiara December 7, 2010 at 7:01 am

Quality of life that ive been looking for is a BALANCE LIFE.
1. spending time with my husband & daughter – play & laugh with them
2. get in touch with my friends and loved ones once in a while…
3. take care of myself and/or self meditate once in a while
4. work 40 hours a week
5. support a foundation for kids
6. observe Sabbath with the whole family
7. thanking each day & looking forward for a brighter tomorrow…

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TinyMayra December 2, 2010 at 6:22 am

1) Avoid toxic people
2)Spend more quality time with loved ones
3)Count at least one blessing a day
4)help others less fortunate (this is a hard one)
5)Respect and love old people
6)Delete negative thinking especially self pity
7) And last but not less……..try to be humble like Jesus

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Jack Mayou December 6, 2010 at 1:05 pm

Totally Right ^^ !!

racquel December 16, 2010 at 3:18 pm

quality of life would be spending happy-sad-hurtful-angry-crazy times with your friends and family.it’s waking up one day with a dream/goal and doing your utmost best to achieve that in every possible way…quality of life is admitting to yourself that u get to be happy one day and sad the next,knowing and being okay with the fact that the world is round and u get to be on top and at the bottom for some moments…

Susan December 1, 2010 at 10:12 pm

…in some moments of my life i had to recognise, that some feelings are important for me…the feeling of freedom, the feeling of love, the feeling of being near to someone or something, to be in contact with others and with myself…with all my good and bad sides, because “they are me”, the feeling, that i don´t hurt anyone, the feeling that i live without distroying myself or others…the feeling, that i can handle with toughts of hate or anger or hurt, so good i can… every moment of happiness and love- i´m thankful for it and i´m thankful that i had this feeling…maybe only for a moment…that´s quality of my life i think. Susan

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Sneha December 1, 2010 at 7:43 pm

I would love. :)

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Lauria July 30, 2011 at 10:32 pm

Sneha,
Thank you for your response. The quality of life is Love!!!!

kiran December 1, 2010 at 4:00 pm

Hard working is an another quality.
Dont be worry too much about any kind of personal problems or hardtimes.
Because if you worry it will gives you more worries
always satisfied in what we have
Thinking possitively is a good habit
Before taking a strong descision it is good to think about the negative side too.
It will help us to make a more comfortable life.
Stand for the truth and realities in this life
Married only once,and respect our own words
Dream the things which is possible to acheive
A person becoms a person according to his own knowledge and hard work and his goodness.

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kiran December 1, 2010 at 3:35 pm

I hope,
1. try to stay in contact with people those who are good.
2.Thinking is good,but sometimes spending time together with our family,friends and children gives a special joy in our heart.
3.Find a place where we can find peace.
4.Avoid the places and media that lead you in a wrong temptation.
5.Always keep a simple and humble attitude.
6.Always keep a respect in our actions
7. kind,love.honesty,frankness,laughing ,talking it will give a great peace and joy in our heart and spirit and our body .
8.Give always thanks to god we have never ever seen.
9.Trying to make others happy that will always gives a special joy of happiness.
10.Always be good and try to do good to others too.
11.Sports and spending time with best friend can make happy.
12.Each and every moment keep a prayer inside our own hearts and sharing knowledge gives a special joy.

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Adelina Monegro December 1, 2010 at 1:35 pm

Great writing:D Going to take a bit of time to think about this content.

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Nikhil November 27, 2010 at 2:38 am

-Improve the way I interact with people..it should be balanced
-being more focused at the task i am handling
-increase the level of accuracy of my task
-do some form of physical exercise for fitness

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kat November 17, 2010 at 3:28 pm

- listening to the sound of nature
- enjoying the moment taht i have
- being true to other people
- keep quiet and understand evrything that is around me
- love and laugh
- keep learning
- sharing what i have learned
- enlightening others

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Princess October 16, 2010 at 8:30 pm

Distance/ cut off from friendships that don’t add to my happiness

Overcome my fear of rejection

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porno October 16, 2010 at 3:32 pm

In order to improve my life, i would do the following
spend time with little kids or may be teach them
spend alone time with my love
pray and eat together with family
do yoga
go out for vacations
break free from all the shackles of routine things

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Claudia December 2, 2010 at 1:59 am

Congratulations… those are the better things of our lifes. It´s great that you can enjoy them.

eleonora October 9, 2010 at 2:53 pm

penso che la qualita’ della vita ,andrebbe migliorata apprezzando le cose semplici.E’difficile ,si va sempre di corsa,necessita’apparentemente necessarie da soddisfare.Bisognerebbe che ognuno di noi comprendesse,che se ci fermassimo a guardarci, vedremmo delle persone intrappolate in un modo di fare le cose ,che e’ solo frenesia.Sono tre anni che per scelta non guardo la tv,le notizie le apprendo dai giornali.Ho realizzato che non si fa altro che parlare,parlare sena risolvere.Amo leggere,facendo cio’ mi rendo conto di quanto sia stato scritto sulla vita,sull’uomo.Anche io ho necessita di lavorare,ora pero’passo parte del mio tempo libero con le persone a cui tengo,guardandomi attorno,amando,sentendomi parte di questo mistero meraviglioso chiamato Vita.Leggendo quanto ho scritto,si potrebbe pensare che delego responsabilita’ della mia parte di insoddisfazione agli altri,no: sono cosciente che il bello e il brutto,in gran parte dipendono dalle mie scelte.

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megha October 8, 2010 at 11:05 am

In order to improve my life, i would do the following
spend time with little kids or may be teach them
spend alone time with my love
pray and eat together with family
do yoga
go out for vacations
break free from all the shackles of routine things

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Lesley Beech September 8, 2010 at 8:45 pm

One good way is to associate more with friends, places and activities that don’t involve any alcohol. The magic here is that our brains can only be occupied with the present thought. By keeping it busy like this, it will have no idle time to think about the alcohol at all. Eventually, you will get mentally and physically stronger until you totally have no more interest in drinking anymore.

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