Optimism is invaluable for the meaningful life. With a firm belief in a positive future, you can throw yourself into the service… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
We have children to pursue other elements of well-being. We want meaning in life. We want relationships. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Flow occurs in your life when your highest skills are matched to challenges that quite exactly meet them. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Optimistic people generally feel that good things will last a long time and will have a beneficial effect on everything they do.… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Suppose you could be hooked up to a hypothetical 'experience machine' that, for the rest of your life, would stimulate your brain… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
There are physical characteristics which are inherited. These include things like good looks, high intelligence, physical coordination. These attributes contribute to success… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
One of my signature strengths is the love of learning, and by teaching, I have built it into the fabric of my… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
It used to be that whenever I introduced myself to people and told them I was a psychologist, they would shrink away from me.… — Martin Seligman Copy Share
I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature on interrogation.… — Martin Seligman Copy Share
I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to… — Martin Seligman Copy Share
It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may… — Martin Seligman Copy Share
One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at… — Martin Seligman Copy Share
It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success. — Martin Seligman Copy Share
Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want… — Martin Seligman Copy Share
What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning. — Martin Seligman Copy Share
I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness workers, and… — Martin Seligman Copy Share
Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair... — Martin Seligman Copy Share
We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need to fail,… — Martin Seligman Copy Share
One of my worries about America is the epidemic of depression we've been in. One of the possibilities about that is that the 'I'… — Martin Seligman Copy Share
The Fundamentalist Religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones. — Martin Seligman Copy Share
If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice afterglow, but… — Martin Seligman Copy Share
