Barbara Fredrickson Quotes
- Positivity opens us. The first core truth about positive emotions is that they open our hearts and our minds, making us more receptive and more…
- Scientists have shown that because positive and open mindsets produce exploration and experiential learning, they also come to produce more-accurate mental maps of the world.
- Positivity transforms us for the better.
- It turns out that unexplained positivity lasts longer than positivity we analyze until we fully understand it.
- When we inject people with positivity, their outlook expands. They see the big picture. When we inject them with neutrality or negativity, their peripheral vision…
- Positivity doesn't just change the contents of your mind...It widens the span of possibilities that you see.
- Flourishing goes beyond happiness, or satisfaction with life. True, people who flourish are happy. But that's not the half of it. Beyond feeling good, they're…
- The boundaries between you and not-you — what lies beyond your skin — relax and become more permeable. While infused with love you see fewer…
- Love is that micro-moment of warmth and connection that you share with another living being
- Love is a momentary upwelling of three tightly interwoven events: First, a sharing of one or more positive emotions between you and another; second, a…
- Positive people are able to maintain a broader perspective and see the big picture which helps them identify solutions where as negative people maintain a…
- Flourishing is not a solo endeavor.
- The negative screams at you but the positive only whispers.
- Love requires you to be physically and emotionally present. It also requires that you slow down.