It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.

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

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.

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

Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals choose the way they think.

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.

Psychology should be just as concerned with building strength as with repairing damage

When we take time to notice the things that go right - it means we're getting a lot of little rewards throughout the day.

When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.

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.

i don't think college is something you should tough out.

u should not be afraid of doing what ur mind tells you 2 do...just listen 2 ur heart...never say never

I love to see people move up on the ladder of success, because every success story reassures that possibilities in life are still endless.

For every one person who praises you, there are a hundred who would criticize. Heed neither the one nor the hundred. It is your own opinion that truly matters.

Many stroke survivors look back on their attack as a stroke of luck. Of course, by luck they mean horrible paralysis.

Talk into my bullet hole. Tell me I'm fine.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

I was the biggest, most hopeless and most violent drunk in baseball.

I think it's wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.