When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.

When we take time to notice the things that go right - it means we're getting a lot of little rewards throughout the day.

If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.

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.

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.

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.

People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances.