Martin Seligman - Life Quotes

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Optimism is invaluable for the meaningful life. With a firm belief in a positive future, you can throw yourself into the service of that which is larger than you are.

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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.

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So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few and only ephemeral pleasures, with minimal gratifications, and without meaning, there is a road out. This road takes you through the countryside of pleasure and gratification, up into the high country of strength and virtue, and finally to the peaks of lasting fulfillment: meaning and purpose

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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.

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

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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.

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

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Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life.

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

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