Quotes on Happiness
from Dr. Martin Seligman
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Martin Seligman
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Dr. Martin Seligman is well qualified to deliver quotes on happiness.
He is the Director of the University of Pennsylvania Positive
Psychology Center and is one of the pioneers and founders of the field
of positive psychology.
During his early research in the field of learned helplessness, he
noticed that no matter how they were treated, some subjects never
became helpless. He then turned his attention to the study of positive
emotions, positive character traits and positive institutions. He has
written many books including Authentic Happiness, Learned Optimism, and
the Optimistic Child. His mission is to train positive physiologists,
who will help to make the world a happier place.
Quotes on Happiness and its Purpose
from Dr. Martin Seligman
Herein lies the likely reason for feelings. Just
as negative feelings are a "here-be-dragons" sensory system that alarms
you, telling you unmistakably that you are in a win-lose encounter, the
feeling part of positive emotion is also sensory. Positive feeling is a
neon "here-be-growth" marquee that tells you that a potential win-win
encounter is at hand.
Positive feelings about a person or an object get
us to approach it, while negative feelings get us to avoid it.
Quotes on Happiness and The Good Life
from Dr. Martin Seligman
The pleasant life: a life that successfully
pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.
The good life: using your signature strengths to obtain abundant
gratification in the main realms of your life.
The meaningful life: using your signature strengths and virtues in the
service of something much larger than you are.
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 more component: using these same
strengths
to forward knowledge, power, or goodness. A life that does
this is pregnant with meaning, and if God comes at the
end, such a life is sacred.
Quotes on Happiness and Virtues
from Dr. Martin Seligman
It … came as a shock to us to discover
that there are no less than six virtues that are endorsed across every
major religious and cultural tradition. … Wisdom and knowledge,
Courage, Love and humanity, Justice, Temperance, and Spirituality and
Transcendence.
To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will,
all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage,
humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.
Work life is undergoing a sea change in the
wealthiest nations. Money, amazingly, in losing its power. … Our
economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction
economy.
Quotes on Happiness and How to Increase
It
from Dr. Martin Seligman
H(enduring level of happiness)=
S(happiness set
range) + C(circumstances of your life) + V(factors in your voluntary
control)
By activating an expansive, tolerant, and creative
mindset, positive feelings maximize the social, intellectual, and
physical benefits that will accrue.
In your own life, you should take particular care
with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the
entire relationship and your willingness to reenter it.
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