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Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.

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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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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself. — Emile M. Cioran
The economic benefits of investing in children have been extensively documented. Investing fully in children today will ensure the well-being and productivity… — Carol Bellamy
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both… — Irwin Shaw
Humanity cannot afford to acknowledge all of the blood that it spills and the destruction it inflicts on the world in its… — Jeremy Rifkin
Only the one that hurts you can make you feel better. Only the one that inflicts pain can take it away — Madonna Ciccone
Gen. Tommy Franks Says That If The United States Is Hit With A Weapon Of Mass Destruction That Inflicts Large Casualties, The… — Tommy Franks
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain. — John Henry Newman
Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later,… — Emile M. Cioran
Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth. — Ian McHarg
What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one side of… — Edwin Percy Whipple
But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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