People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances.

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.

Death like style is the removal of rubbish.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

Find your soul and you'll live. Lose your soul and you'll die.

The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way.

You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around.

I believe that Virtual Reality will hit it big time. I know that some of my colleagues disagree, but I believe in it.

Be good. Be kind to each other. And if there's somebody you love, tell them. The world always needs more love.

If I went to a psychiatrist, it would be a long session. I've always thought that I do have a number of issues that probably need dealing with, because I am quite odd in some ways.

By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.