What humans want is not just happiness. They want ... -Martin Seligman

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What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning.

Martin Seligman , Psychologist
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If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more....
One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a c...
Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well an...
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 ...
Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want t...
In human history, we are going from knowledge to omniscience, from potence to omnipotence, from ethics and religion to righteousness. So, in my view, ...
The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one mo...
On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and...
I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do....
The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and meant a lot of different things to different people, and al...

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While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck....
The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But i...
Being married to your best friend, that's happiness....
Me, I've been lucky to be good at happiness....
While I voted for Mr. Trump, my confidence remains in God for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness....
Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime....
You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, tha...
I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and the...
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are....
Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your...