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We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need to fail, we…

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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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As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when… — Philibert Joseph Roux
But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that… — Plutarch
There's not one woman in America who does not care about her hair, but we give it way too much value. We… — Viola Davis
By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their… — Benjamin Rush
When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve… — Dianne Feinstein
We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need… — Martin Seligman
Too much of our time is spent trying to chart God on a grid, and too little is spent allowing our hearts… — Donald Miller
We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them… — Sandra Day O'Connor
It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness… — Thomas Paine
I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute… — Plutarch
In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out… — Brennan Manning

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