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.

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.

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.

Time is not a means to keep or prove your worth in the world, but a means to experience the richness of all that is.

I suppose they're confident. I think younger guys love the idea of a divorced woman who's going to teach them how to be a man.

Protect your spirit, because you are in the place where spirits get eaten.

Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.

Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private.

I say only that this man [Donald Trump] is not Christian if he has said things like that [about wall]. We must see if he said things in that way and in this I give the benefit of the doubt.

The real gift of gratitude is that the more grateful you are, the more present you become.

Hey there, Little Red Riding Hood, you sure are looking good. You're everything a big bad wolf could want.

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.