Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair.

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.

Preferring steady progress, slow and imperfect, is a good philosophy for the defeated.

All of us know history repeats itself, but mighty few of us recognize the repetition until too late.

Fix your course to a star and you can navigate through any storm

Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

The C.E.O.'s job in a creativity-driven company is to be an impresario, not a manager.

The Chains of conformity click in tiresomely monotonous unison.

Do not seek to be loved at any price, because Love has no price.

Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?