Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative emotions.

So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few and only ephemeral pleasures, with minimal gratifications, and without meaning, there is a road out. This road takes you through the countryside of pleasure and gratification, up into the high country of strength and virtue, and finally to the peaks of lasting fulfillment: meaning and purpose

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

The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.

The Fundamentalist Religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.

Positive, optimistic sales people sell more than pessimistic sales people.

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