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The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.
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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…
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Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith,…
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I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed,…
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Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the…
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Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that…
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In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire…
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Curing the negatives does not produce the positives.
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When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.
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The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in…
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In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world.…
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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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When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.
— Nikola Tesla
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I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed,…
— Martin Seligman
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I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire…
— James A. Michener
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Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.
— Dalai Lama
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I should like to sleep like a cat, with all the fur of time, with a tongue rough as flint, with the…
— Pablo Neruda
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I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out against it not in anger but with anxiety and…
— Martin Luther
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that... awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it,…
— Jean Helion
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Much of everyday life is filled with opportunities to be distracted. Our possessions... entertainment... cares and anxieties... and even the passionate desire…
— Joyce Meyer
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He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He…
— Victor Hugo
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Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no…
— Rebecca Solnit
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The law of giving and receiving is fundamental, and relates just as much to God as it does to us. As we…
— Selwyn Hughes
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