Best Martin Seligman Quotes
- Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better. Better
- Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment. Accomplishment
- Habits of pessimism lead to depression, wither achievement, and undermine physical health. The good news is that pessimism can be unlearned, and that with its… Achievement
- The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one… Add
- When it comes to our health, there are essentially four things under our control: the decision not to smoke, a commitment to exercise, the quality… Beneficial
- When we take time to notice the things that go right - it means we're getting a lot of little rewards throughout the day. Day
- People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances. Believe
- 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 do. Beings
- Reaching beyond where you are is really important. Beyond
- If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago. Ago
- 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 opposite… Angry
- We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need to fail, we… Anguished
- The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water... The drive for competence or to resist compulsion is… Animal
- Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair... Causes
- Self-esteem cannot be directly injected. It needs to result from doing well, from being warranted. Directly
- Flow occurs in your life when your highest skills are matched to challenges that quite exactly meet them. Challenges
- We're not prisoners of the past. Inspirational
- On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors. All
- There is one aspect of happiness that's been well studied, and it's the notion of flow. Ask yourselves, when for you does time stop? When… Ask
- Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the… Art
- Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence. Depends
- Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life. Beyond
- Money, amazingly, is losing its power... Our economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction economy. Amazingly
- The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external. Bad
- Pleasure is the least consequential... engagement and meaning are much more important. Consequential
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