Martin Seligman Quotes
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The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.
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Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative emotions.
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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Curing the negatives does not produce the positives.
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When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.
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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…
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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…
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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.
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You go into flow when your highest strengths are deployed to meet the highest challenges that come your way.
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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…
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What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.
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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…
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Psychology should be just as concerned with building strength as with repairing damage
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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…
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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…
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By activating an expansive, tolerant, and creative mindset, positive feelings maximize the social, intellectual, and physical benefits that will accrue.
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