Emotions Future Quotes by Martin Seligman

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Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith, and trust. Those about the present include joy, ecstasy, calm, zest, ebullience, pleasure, and (most importantly) flow; these…

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It used to be that whenever I introduced myself to people and told them I was a psychologist, they would shrink away from me.…

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I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature on interrogation.…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.

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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…

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What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning.

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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…

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Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair...

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We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need to fail,…

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The Fundamentalist Religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.

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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…

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I don't mind being wrong, and I don't mind changing my mind.

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