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

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.

Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment.

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

Optimism generates hope...hope releases dreams...dreams set goals...enthusiasm follows

The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and are their own fault. The optimists, who are confronted with the same hard knocks of this world, think about misfortune in the opposite way. They tend to believe that defeat is just a temporary setback or a challenge, that its causes are just confined to this one case.

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.