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Changing the destructive thin...

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.

Martin Seligman 63 quotes

Positive emotion can be about...

Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith, and trust. Those about the present include joy, ecstasy, calm, zest, ebullience, pleasure, and (most importantly) flow; these emotions are what most people usually mean when they casually-but much too narrowly-talk about "happiness." The positive emotions about the past include satisfaction, contentment, fulfillment, pride, and serenity.

Martin Seligman 63 quotes

Psychology is much bigger tha...

Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. Its about education, work, marriage - its even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.

Martin Seligman 63 quotes

Flow occurs in your life when...

Flow occurs in your life when your highest skills are matched to challenges that quite exactly meet them.

Martin Seligman 63 quotes

What determines how much time...

What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.

Martin Seligman 63 quotes

The pursuit of happiness is e...

The pursuit of happiness is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence as a right of all Americans, as well as on the self-improvement shelves of every American bookstore. Yet the scientific evidence makes it seem unlikely that you can change your level of happiness in any sustainable way. It suggests that we each have a fixed range for happiness just as we do for weight. And just as dieters almost always regain the weight they lose, sad people don't become lastingly happy, and happy people don't become lastingly sad.

Martin Seligman 63 quotes

The aim of Positive Psycholog...

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 building the best qualities in life.

Martin Seligman 63 quotes

Ten years ago, when I was on ...

Ten years ago, when I was on an airplane and I introduced myself to my seatmate, and told them [I was a psychologist], they'd move away from me. ... And now when I tell people what I do, they move toward me.

Martin Seligman 63 quotes

Once a depressed person becom...

Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing.

Martin Seligman 63 quotes

In a society in which individ...

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 system makes individual failure almost inconsolable.

Martin Seligman 63 quotes

The drive to resist compulsio...

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 a drive to avoid helplessness.

Martin Seligman 63 quotes

Habits of pessimism lead to d...

Habits of pessimism lead to depression, wither achievement, and undermine physical health. The good news is that pessimism can be unlearned, and that with its removal depression, underachievement, and poor health can be alleviated.

Martin Seligman 63 quotes

We're not prisoners of the pa...

We're not prisoners of the past.

Martin Seligman 63 quotes

In your own life, you should ...

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 willingness to reenter it.

Martin Seligman 63 quotes

On the other hand, permanent ...

On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors.

Martin Seligman 63 quotes

The pleasant life: a life tha...

The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.

Martin Seligman 63 quotes

By activating an expansive, t...

By activating an expansive, tolerant, and creative mindset, positive feelings maximize the social, intellectual, and physical benefits that will accrue.

Martin Seligman 63 quotes

Doing a kindness produces the...

Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.

Martin Seligman 63 quotes

Pleasure is the least consequ...

Pleasure is the least consequential... engagement and meaning are much more important.

Martin Seligman 63 quotes

The good life is using your s...

The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.

Martin Seligman 63 quotes

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