Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health..

We're not prisoners of the past..

When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity..

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 buildi….

Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistenc….

Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested..

Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith, and trust. ….

Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. Its about education, work, marriage - its even about sports. What I want to….

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

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one m….

You go into flow when your highest strengths are deployed to meet the highest challenges that come your way..

Curing the negatives does not produce the positives..

Optimism is invaluable for the meaningful life. With a firm belief in a positive future, you can throw yourself into the service of that which is la….

Optimism generates hope...hope releases dreams...dreams set goals...enthusiasm follows.

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better..

The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and ….

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….

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 wa….

When we take time to notice the things that go right - it means we're getting a lot of little rewards throughout the day..

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..

Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life..