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But out-of-hand anger ruins many lives. More, I believe, than schizophrenia, more than alcohol, more than AIDS. Maybe even more than depression.
— Martin E.P. Seligman
Pleasure is the least consequential ... engagement and meaning are much more important.
— Martin Seligman
I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness.
— Martin Seligman
There is no way to imagine what it feels like to be shot at. I will never be with him when he is the most scared.
— Melissa Seligman
While you can't control your experiences, you can control your explanations.
— Martin E.P. 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
I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do.
— Martin Seligman
First, you learn to recognize the automatic thoughts flitting through your consciousness at the times you feel worst.
— Martin E.P. Seligman
The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.
— Martin Seligman
Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.
— Martin Seligman
Pessimistic labels lead to passivity, whereas optimistic ones lead to attempts to change.
— Martin E.P. Seligman
The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.
— Martin Seligman
The genius of evolution lies in the dynamic tension between optimism and pessimism continually correcting each other.
— Martin E.P. Seligman
Perhaps the single most robust fact across many surveys is that married people are happier than anyone else.
— Martin Seligman
The skills of becoming happy turn out to be almost entirely different from the skills of not being sad, not being anxious, or not being angry.
— Martin E.P. Seligman
Second, you learn to dispute the automatic thoughts by marshaling contrary evidence.
— Martin E.P. Seligman
A raise is like a martini: it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily.
— Daniel Seligman
Flow occurs in your life when your highest skills are matched to challenges that quite exactly meet them.
— Martin Seligman
The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.
— Martin Seligman
Money, amazingly, is losing its power ... Our economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction economy.
— Martin Seligman
Fourth, you learn how to distract yourself from depressing thoughts.
— Martin E.P. Seligman
Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence.
— Martin Seligman
What are the enabling conditions that make human beings flourish? How do we get from zero to plus five?
— Martin Seligman
One of my signature strengths is the love of learning, and by teaching, I have built it into the fabric of my life. I try to do some of it every day.
— Martin Seligman
Exploders, people who have frequent outbursts of temper, also have more cancer than normal people.
— Martin E.P. Seligman
I believe it is within our capacity that by the year 2051 that 51 percent of the human population will be flourishing. That is my charge.
— Martin Seligman
When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.
— Martin Seligman
The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range.
— Martin Seligman
When we take time to notice the things that go right - it means we're getting a lot of little rewards throughout the day.
— Martin Seligman
I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.
— Martin Seligman
The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external.
— Martin Seligman
Third, you learn to make different explanations, called reattributions, and use them to dispute your automatic thoughts.
— Martin E.P. Seligman
If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.
— Martin Seligman
Authentic happiness derives from raising the bar for yourself, not rating yourself against others.
— Martin E.P. Seligman
Psychology should be just as concerned with building strength as with repairing damage
— Martin Seligman
Fifth, you learn to recognize and question the depression-sowing assumptions governing so much of what you do:
— Martin E.P. Seligman
Rather than giving people an inflated view of themselves, we need to give them concrete reasons to feel good about themselves.
— Martin Seligman
Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be more than a happiology.
— Martin Seligman
Self-esteem cannot be directly injected. It needs to result from doing well, from being warranted.
— Martin Seligman
You go into flow when your highest strengths are deployed to meet the highest challenges that come your way.
— Martin Seligman
What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.
— Martin Seligman
We're not prisoners of the past.
— Martin Seligman
It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.
— Martin Seligman
Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative emotions.
— Martin Seligman
Afghanistan changed him, but Iraq sculpted him.
— Melissa Seligman
You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side.
— Martin Seligman
I don't mind being wrong, and I don't mind changing my mind.
— Martin Seligman
Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair ...
— Martin Seligman
Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life.
— Martin Seligman
Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.
— Martin Seligman
Curing the negatives does not produce the positives.
— Martin Seligman
High taxes on guns and strong restrictions on their availability are the only realistic hope for avoiding many more Sandy Hooks.
— Martin Seligman
Reaching beyond where you are is really important.
— Martin Seligman
Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.
— Martin Seligman
On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors.
— Martin Seligman
The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.
— Martin Seligman
People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances.
— Martin Seligman
Practiced regularly (twice a day), relaxation or meditation prevents angry arousal.
— Martin E.P. Seligman