Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.

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.

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.

We are living in a new age of energy supply anxiety.

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.

Personal revelation, consecration of performance, attention to detail, and dependency on God-with these qualities you cannot fail.

Then you have to answer to your car owner, you have to answer to the sponsor, you have to answer to all these folks why you're not racing. But that's the only way it will ever stop.

For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature is in no way privileged.

Sanctification will be drudgery unless we believe that holiness is possible and that it is pleasing to God.

At this point, I'm happy to be part of something special. As an actor I liked to choose scripts that I'm passionate about.

The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.

Every picture one paints involves not painting others.