Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of ch... -Martin Seligman

Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die.

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...
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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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Nobody under the age of 55 should be able to stand for election, and nobody under the age of 30 should be able to vote in those elections....
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