Martin Seligman
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One of my signature strengths is the love of learning, and by teaching, I have built it into the fab... 
The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me... 
Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great p... 
Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great piece... 
Beautify your breath – beautify your life. 
Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every pa... 
Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths. 
Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling. An unexpecte... 
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fu... 
Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... 
It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying abo... 
We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. 
I could think, write or tell, instead I Lived and Created Myself! 
When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. 
What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making
decisions and using yo... 
I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... 
Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... 
Tomorrow is tomorrow.
To him, even the momentary was momentous. 
Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... 
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fu... 
Idleness is a form of passivity in an active universe. 
Joy always follows on the heels of pain. If a person escapes a mindset that current events represent... 
It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo... 
She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She s... 
Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of t... 
Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward. 
The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment. 
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom o... 
No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. 
The most painful moments and memories eventually lead to the greatest strengths and growth in life. 
The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession o... 
Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when... 
Mind is like a net, drawn by the needles of past and future. Mindfulness is the way for not getting ... 
As you heal, you see yourself more realistically. You accept that you are a person with strengths an... 
I'd rather be on the ground than under
The realms of life are many. For each one, special sciences develop. But life itself is a unity, and... 
You have to learn where your weaknesses end and your strengths starts or you will spend your life fo... 
Don't let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right... 
Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... 
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything abo... 
There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturall... 
Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti... 
Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... 
Watching TV produces low levels of satisfaction because it doesn't challenge you. Instead, do so... 
My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on. 
Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us. 
Let the Gods create the days, and just live through them. 
The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more l... 
The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and m... 
It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapid... 
The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water. He found ... 
Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of t... 
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the soc... 
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God'... 
When I'm making a film, I'm the audience. 
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is. 
When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this:... 
The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism. 
But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history. 
My idea of a good night out is staying in. 
I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't. 
I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper. 
What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in th... 
Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gif... 
A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth. 
Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same... 
The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door. 
Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really w... 
Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fictio... 
If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there. 
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it... 
Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have... 
In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work i... 
I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind. 
In the aftermath of 9/11 and in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, few questioned the idea that t... 
The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was b... 
We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long ... 
Let me put it like this: I am not prepared to officiate over on behalf of the British government wha... 
Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being rel... 
I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distra... 
Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid ... 
Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets ... 
'Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a differe... 
Given the scale of issues like global warming and epidemic disease, we shouldn't underestimate t...