Martin Seligman Quotes

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• The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.
• Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative emotions.
• 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…
• I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed, but if he…
• Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.
• Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals choose the…
• In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire relationship and your…
• Curing the negatives does not produce the positives.
• When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.
• The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also…
• In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world. Such a belief…
• Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.
• You go into flow when your highest strengths are deployed to meet the highest challenges that come your way.
• The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and…
• What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.
• Optimism is invaluable for the meaningful life. With a firm belief in a positive future, you can throw yourself into the service of that which…
• Psychology should be just as concerned with building strength as with repairing damage
• So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few and only ephemeral…
• Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually…
• By activating an expansive, tolerant, and creative mindset, positive feelings maximize the social, intellectual, and physical benefits that will accrue.

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