Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence.

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.

No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.

Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.

Imagine yourself in a parallel universe. Imagined? Now either attain or forget it.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Know or listen to those who know.

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. What scares you, is not your weaknesses, but your strengths.

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls.

Our time in this life is limited. And how we respect that time will create a greater possibility for fulfillment.

Music is magic. Music does s**t that money could never do. Music unites nations and stops wars.

Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.