The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.
Martin SeligmanThe 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.
Martin SeligmanDoing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.
Martin SeligmanHabits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals choose the way they think.
Martin Seligman