Reaching beyond where you are is really important.

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.

Faith in God gives faith in self.

The ego romanticizes the past to avoid the true romance of the present.

God may seem sometimes to forget for a while, whilst his justice reposes, but there always comes a moment when he remembers.

The biggest thing I've learned is that you only have one chance. You only have today to live-but you gotta take it and make it the best you can

Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.

Ш'm not cybernaut, this stuff's so foreign to me.

I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.

I've been very lucky to work with a lot of amazingly supportive directors.

Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.

To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.