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Causes Quotes by Martin Seligman
- 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…
- People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances.
- Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair...
- On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors.
- 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…
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial. — Richard Armour
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate. — Rowan Atkinson
- It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr. — Saint Augustine
- How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. — Marcus Aurelius
- We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of… — Marcus Aurelius
- A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause… — Irving Babbitt
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing… — Edward Bach
- During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we… — Michelle Bachelet