Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains. - Martin Seligman 1 Share Now -
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 2 Share Now -
Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful. - Martin Seligman 3 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success. - Martin Seligman 5 Share Now -
The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones. - Martin Seligman 6 Share Now -
On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and friendship and decreases the probability of depression. - Martin Seligman 7 Share Now -
If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago. - Martin Seligman 8 Share Now -
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 9 Share Now -
Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains. - Martin Seligman 10 Share Now -
