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Life Quotes by Martin Seligman
- The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.
- In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire relationship and your…
- 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…
- Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.
- Optimism is invaluable for the meaningful life. With a firm belief in a positive future, you can throw yourself into the service of that which is…
- So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few and only ephemeral…
- Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.
- 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…
- Flow occurs in your life when your highest skills are matched to challenges that quite exactly meet them.
- Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life.
- Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be more than a…
- We have children to pursue other elements of well-being. We want meaning in life. We want relationships.
- There are physical characteristics which are inherited. These include things like good looks, high intelligence, physical coordination. These attributes contribute to success in life, and…
- One of my signature strengths is the love of learning, and by teaching, I have built it into the fabric of my life. I try…
- 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…
- 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…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle