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The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic…

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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…
Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith,…
I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed,…
Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the…
Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that…
In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire…
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…
In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world.…
Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central…

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Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege. — Keith Crown
How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although… — John Keats
The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Judging from the way they sat and goggled at the drag on the stage it was obvious that they were indulging in… — Eric Hiscock
But the most amazing, almost miraculous news is that the majority of the building is still intact. Due to one of the… — Unknown Author
Some people think that mathematics is a serious business that must always be cold and dry; but we think mathematics is fun,… — Ronald Graham
Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful. — Andy Hobsbawm
The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different. — John Szarkowski
So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the actual words… — Francine Prose
Women share this planet 50/ 50 and they are underrepresented -- their potential astonishingly untapped. — Emma Watson
If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his… — Arne Jacobsen
The world is grand, awfully big and astonishingly beautiful, frequently thrilling. — Dorothy Kilgallen

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