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.

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

Curing the negatives does not produce the positives.

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.

To the scientists of the Renaissance, your critic was really your ally, helping you advance upon reality. Critics in science are not like drama critics, determining flops and successes. Criticism to scientists is just another means of finding out whether they're wrong, like running another experiment to see if it confirms or refutes a theory. Along with the advocacy principle of the courtroom, It is one of the best ways human beings have evolved to get closer to the truth.

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

Habits 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.