Positive Psychology Quotes

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

When dealing with people, let us remember that we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. ...Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights.

My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

To be happy, you must live in, but not for, the present moment.

A good life is a main argument.

I know that things get worse before they get better because that’s what my psychiatrist says, but this is a worse that feels too big.

Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.

Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.

I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.

There's a huge difference between achieving to be happy and happily achieving.

Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.

Happiness is a choice. Choose to be happy.

Instead of pleasing, learn the art of happiness.

After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

Anxiety and gratitude cant live in the same head

Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer.

One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.

Research has shown that a simple act of kindness directed toward another improves the functioning of the immune system and stimulates the production of serotonin in both the recipient of the kindness and the person extending the kindness. Kindness extended, received or observed beneficially impacts the physical health and feelings of everyone involved.

The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.

I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.

The Pursuit of Happiness: It sure seems to like a good chase, doesn't it?

A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression.