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

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

You go into flow when your highest strengths are deployed to meet the highest challenges that come your way.

What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.

The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also building the best qualities in life.

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.

I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed, but if he believes he cannot compose music, he will come to nothing. He will not try hard enough. He will give up too soon when the elusive right melody takes too long to materialize.