Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. Its about education, work, marriage - its even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.
Martin SeligmanLife inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.
Martin SeligmanIf we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.
Martin Seligman