If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.

The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.

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

The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the lower his self-esteem.

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

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 accomplishment.

Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful.