The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.

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.

Optimism is invaluable for the meaningful life. With a firm belief in a positive future, you can throw yourself into the service of that which is larger than you are.

Curing the negatives does not produce the positives.

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

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

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