In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire relationship and your willingness to reenter it.

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

Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.

Reaching beyond where you are is really important.

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.

In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire relationship and your willingness to reenter it.

I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do.