The Event Horizon

Well-being was a condition one had to groom. A condition one had to be acquainted with in order to seek it.
He continued arguing that well-being was an achievement that one had to deliberately seek (funny)…
He laughed mockingly and assured me that in order to accomplish the feat of making myself miserable I had to work in the most intense fashion, and that it was absurd I had never realized I could work just the same in making myself complete and strong.
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. (Ixtlan, 211)

Nothing of what your grandfather or father said about the church gave them well-being. To be an impeccable warrior, on the other hand, will give you vigor and youth and power. So it is proper for you to choose wisely. (Ring, 243)

She exuded strength and conviction and purpose. (Ring, 245)

Don Juan said that the night before I had begun to be aware of my luminosity. He admonished me not to indulge in the sense of well-being I was having, because it would turn into complacency. (Power, 74)