On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors.

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.

God is mighty in splendor.

Here’s a little secret that’s going to save you a LOT of unnecessary grief in life. Are you ready? Your worth is not tied to any person.

Sometimes you are damn wrong and you just don't get it.

I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they belong in any number of situations.

It's quite amazingly radical, what their [the Kochs] vision of America would be.

Do not think about the body. The body comes and goes; for it there is birth and there is death. But you are not the body. Body is just rust and dust. Think only of God. Love God.

If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.

Theology is unnecessary.

Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.

Animals are like humans, only more openly carnal and sexual, more openly and therefore more disarmingly absurd.