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- Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative emotions.
- In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world. Such a belief…
- Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually…
- The Fundamentalist Religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.
- Positive, optimistic sales people sell more than pessimistic sales people.
- 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 drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water... The drive for competence or to resist compulsion is…
- Pleasure is the least consequential... engagement and meaning are much more important.
- The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the lower his self-esteem.
- 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…
- There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think…
- 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…
- High taxes on guns and strong restrictions on their availability are the only realistic hope for avoiding many more Sandy Hooks.
- The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range.
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- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
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- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle