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.

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 believe there is a hero in each of us. The best books are the ones that remind us of who we already are and empower us to embrace our own story.

Those who dare take risks shall fulfill their passions.

I won't tell if you don't." I winked.Granny laughed.In the South, a wink speaks louder than words.

You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.

Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.

Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.

Alasdair Fraser's Culburnie Records has quietly become one of the best Celtic music labels today.

It's disappointing to have lost - that's the bee's knees of it.

Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.