Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith, and trust. Those about the present include joy, ecstasy, calm, zest, ebullience, pleasure, and (most importantly) flow; these emotions are what most people usually mean when they casually-but much too narrowly-talk about "happiness." The positive emotions about the past include satisfaction, contentment, fulfillment, pride, and serenity.

To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.

In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world. Such a belief system makes individual failure almost inconsolable.

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

Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.

Psychology should be just as concerned with building strength as with repairing damage

The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.