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From Quotes by Martin Seligman
- 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…
- Ten years ago, when I was on an airplane and I introduced myself to my seatmate, and told them [I was a psychologist], they'd move…
- People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances.
- Self-esteem cannot be directly injected. It needs to result from doing well, from being warranted.
- Money, amazingly, is losing its power... Our economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction economy.
- What are the enabling conditions that make human beings flourish? How do we get from zero to plus five?
- Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we…
- In human history, we are going from knowledge to omniscience, from potence to omnipotence, from ethics and religion to righteousness. So, in my view, God…
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