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

- Martin Seligman

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…

- Martin Seligman

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…

- Martin Seligman

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…

- Martin Seligman

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.

- Martin Seligman

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

- Martin Seligman

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

- Martin Seligman

The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.

- Martin Seligman

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

- Martin Seligman