Curing the negatives does not produce the positives.

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.

Connected knowers do not measure other people's words by some impersonal standard. Their purpose is not to judge but to understand.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

Woman's primary place is in the home, where she is to rear children and abide by the righteous counsel of her husband.

Women do not forget. Women do not forgive.

I don't think anyone really understands why a show works or why it doesn't.

I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.

Every day ask yourself, "What would I do today if I were a better person?

One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.

Aging is for people who don't know any better.

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.