I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
The Fundamentalist Religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
I believe psychology has done very well in working out how to understand and treat disease. But I think that is literally… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
By activating an expansive, tolerant, and creative mindset, positive feelings maximize the social, intellectual, and physical benefits that will accrue. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
It's my belief that, since the end of the Second World War, psychology has moved too far away from its original roots,… — 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
The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of… — 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
Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill,… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Positive psychology is not remotely intended to replace therapy or pharmacology. So when depressed, anxious or in panic or post-traumatic stress disorder,… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning. — 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 workers, and… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair... — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
