Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive.
Read MoreThe greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Read MoreKnowing is not enough, we must apply;
Willing is not enough, we must do.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index provides nearly real-time data on Americans' well-being across five elements: purpose, social, financial, community and physical. The following are Gallup editors' picks for the most important health and well-being findings reported in 2016.
Read MoreA family in harmony does fortune sing;
A family in discord does squabbling cling.