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Martin Seligman Quotes

I don’t mind being wrong, and I don’t mind changing my mind Picture Quote #1

I’m trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do Picture Quote #1

We have children to pursue other elements of well-being. We want meaning in life. We want relationships Picture Quote #1

If you were an optimistic teen, then you’ll be an optimist at 80. People’s reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more Picture Quote #1

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 happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness Picture Quote #1

The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range Picture Quote #1

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Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die Picture Quote #1

Self-esteem cannot be directly injected. It needs to result from doing well, from being warranted Picture Quote #1

One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn’t be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you’re sad Picture Quote #1

Perhaps the single most robust fact across many surveys is that married people are happier than anyone else Picture Quote #1

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 more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power, or goodness. A life that does this is pregnant with meaning, and if God comes at the end, such a life is sacred Picture Quote #1

Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative emotions Picture Quote #1

Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence Picture Quote #1

Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation Picture Quote #1

Money, amazingly, is losing its power... Our economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction economy Picture Quote #1

Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing Picture Quote #1

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Suppose you could be hooked up to a hypothetical ‘experience machine’ that, for the rest of your life, would stimulate your brain and give you any positive feelings you desire. Most people to whom I offer this imaginary choice refuse the machine. It is not just positive feelings we want: we want to be entitled to our positive feelings Picture Quote #1

The word ‘happiness’ always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and meant a lot of different things to different people, and also because it’s subjective Picture Quote #1

I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness Picture Quote #1

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn’t very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity Picture Quote #1

Rather than giving people an inflated view of themselves, we need to give them concrete reasons to feel good about themselves Picture Quote #1

When we take time to notice the things that go right - it means we’re getting a lot of little rewards throughout the day Picture Quote #1

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The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future Picture Quote #1

P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That’s the human dashboard Picture Quote #1

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 more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness Picture Quote #1

Optimism generates hope...hope releases dreams...dreams set goals...enthusiasm follows Picture Quote #1

I’m all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at any given moment is billiard balls whose past determines our future course. That doesn’t take into account that we are forever generating internal representations of positive futures and choosing among them Picture Quote #1

I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world’s largest association of mental-illness workers, and I am all for more funding for mental-health care and research - but not in the vain hope that it will curb violence Picture Quote #1

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I don’t mind being wrong, and I don’t mind changing my mind (Martin Seligman Quotes) I’m trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do (Martin Seligman Quotes) We have children to pursue other elements of well-being. We want meaning in life. We want relationships. (Martin Seligman Quotes) If you were an optimistic teen, then you’ll be an optimist at 80. People’s reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more. (Martin Seligman Quotes) 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 happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness. (Martin Seligman Quotes) The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range. (Martin Seligman Quotes) Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die. (Martin Seligman Quotes) Self-esteem cannot be directly injected. It needs to result from doing well, from being warranted (Martin Seligman Quotes) One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn’t be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you’re sad (Martin Seligman Quotes) Perhaps the single most robust fact across many surveys is that married people are happier than anyone else. (Martin Seligman Quotes) 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 more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power, or goodness. A life that does this is pregnant with meaning, and if God comes at the end, such a life is sacred (Martin Seligman Quotes) Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment (Martin Seligman Quotes) 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 (Martin Seligman Quotes) Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative emotions (Martin Seligman Quotes) Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence (Martin Seligman Quotes) Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation (Martin Seligman Quotes) Money, amazingly, is losing its power... Our economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction economy (Martin Seligman Quotes) 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 Quotes) Suppose you could be hooked up to a hypothetical ‘experience machine’ that, for the rest of your life, would stimulate your brain and give you any positive feelings you desire. Most people to whom I offer this imaginary choice refuse the machine. It is not just positive feelings we want: we want to be entitled to our positive feelings. (Martin Seligman Quotes) The word ‘happiness’ always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and meant a lot of different things to different people, and also because it’s subjective. (Martin Seligman Quotes) I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness (Martin Seligman Quotes) I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn’t very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity. (Martin Seligman Quotes) Rather than giving people an inflated view of themselves, we need to give them concrete reasons to feel good about themselves. (Martin Seligman Quotes) When we take time to notice the things that go right - it means we’re getting a lot of little rewards throughout the day. (Martin Seligman Quotes) The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future. (Martin Seligman Quotes) P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That’s the human dashboard. (Martin Seligman Quotes) 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 more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness. (Martin Seligman Quotes) Optimism generates hope...hope releases dreams...dreams set goals...enthusiasm follows (Martin Seligman Quotes) I’m all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at any given moment is billiard balls whose past determines our future course. That doesn’t take into account that we are forever generating internal representations of positive futures and choosing among them. (Martin Seligman Quotes) I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world’s largest association of mental-illness workers, and I am all for more funding for mental-health care and research - but not in the vain hope that it will curb violence. (Martin Seligman Quotes)

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