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

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

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.

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.

Mistakes don’t make you a failure, but beating yourself up makes you feel like one.

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.

So this was what it felt like to lose yourself. Again. To let go of your future and let it rise up and up until finally you couldn't see it anymore, and you knew that you had to start over.

Follow your dreams and make the most of every experience.

For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.

No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.

Success never goes on sale. Be willing to pay the market price.

Dinah Shore? Wonderful woman. Dinah formed a foundation to locate missing senior citizens by putting their pictures on prune juice bottles.

Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God.

With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but also figure out how to look at world and characters in a different way.