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Positive emotions are like nutrients for the mind, helping us grow and flourish.
The 40% solution: The capacity to increase happiness is within our personal control.
Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it’s not out there is that it’s inside us.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Positivity transforms us for the better. By opening our hearts and minds, positive emotions allow us to discover and build new skills, new ties, new knowledge, and new ways of being.
Positive emotions broaden our awareness and encourage novel, varied, and exploratory thoughts and actions. Over time, this broadened behavioral repertoire builds skills and resources.
Meaning comes from belonging to and serving something beyond yourself.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
The self is nothing else than the sum of all the contents of consciousness.
It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.
Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives.
Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you're using your skills to the utmost.
The self grows by reaching outward.
People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.
Positive emotions broaden our awareness and allow us to see more possibilities.
Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.
The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times... The best moments usually occur if a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.
Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it is the realization that we can.