The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and meant a lot of different things to different people, and also because it's subjective.

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.

Men are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

What do you see from your window? Mostly the things you have been taught to you! And so your view is poor and so you too! To be rich, let the things which have not been taught to you reach you too!

The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.

Vodka is tasteless going down, but it is memorable coming up.

Peace cannot be built on exclusion. That has been the price of the past 30 years.

There is no fyre without some smoke.

Donald Trump has more delegates than anybody. He won all 50 delegates in South Carolina. He's got a strong lead.

Educate a woman, you educate a nation.

The first thing to look out for after your first big success are drugs and screenplays.

You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.