Psychology should be just as concerned with building strength as with repairing damage

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.

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.

You're still alive. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really matters.

Children have always liked the princess story, but they never knew what was her name. I think the princess was, is and will always be you.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.

I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God.

The universal subjugator, the commonplace.

It almost always happens that true, but exaggerated, coloring is more agreeable than absolute coloring.

It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be beloved, a man needs a dragon.

I'm permanent you can't erase me

I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors.