Quotes by : Martin Seligman

Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work,....

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

The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal,....

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can....

On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they....

It's my belief that, since the end of the Second World War, psychology has moved too far away from its....

Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism....

The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable....

P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those....

The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and meant a lot....