Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.
Martin SeligmanIn 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.
Martin SeligmanThe pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.
Martin SeligmanTo 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.
Martin Seligman