Best Positive Psychology Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 3

“Studies show that receiving generosity and kindness increases the likelihood of extending generosity to others. And kindness is likely to play an important role in setting a cascade of generosity in motion. When we help others, we may not only be helping this one particular individual but potentially many others downstream.”

Kindness Generosity Positive Psychology The Positive Edge Speaker Tina Hallis

Book:Sharpen Your Positive Edge: Shifting Your Thoughts for More Positivity and Success

Source: Sharpen Your Positive Edge: Shifting Your Thoughts for More Positivity and Success

“What memories can you dig up that create warm feelings? It could be a childhood memory, something recent, a place, a person, or just a special moment. Take time to savor and reflect on these memories, using all of your 5 senses. These are the real treasures in life!”

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Book:Sharpen Your Positive Edge: Shifting Your Thoughts for More Positivity and Success

Source: Sharpen Your Positive Edge: Shifting Your Thoughts for More Positivity and Success

“We complain and hate feeling bad, but we can quickly get used to feeling good and may seldom remember to appreciate it. However, we can purposely reflect back and recall the misery of past aches and pains to remind ourselves how awful it was so we can enjoy our current wellbeing.”

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Book:Sharpen Your Positive Edge: Shifting Your Thoughts for More Positivity and Success

Source: Sharpen Your Positive Edge: Shifting Your Thoughts for More Positivity and Success

“Practicing positivity is like brushing our teeth—it doesn’t last, so we have to repeat often. That’s where the effort and practice come in.”

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Book:Sharpen Your Positive Edge: Shifting Your Thoughts for More Positivity and Success

Source: Sharpen Your Positive Edge: Shifting Your Thoughts for More Positivity and Success

“When it comes to thinking about gratitude, it’s common to reflect on those things we appreciate in our lives. But there are many twists we can take with gratitude. For instance, we can be grateful for things we don’t have.”

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Book:Sharpen Your Positive Edge: Shifting Your Thoughts for More Positivity and Success

Source: Sharpen Your Positive Edge: Shifting Your Thoughts for More Positivity and Success

“Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. Its about education, work, marriage - its even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.”

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Author:Martin Seligman

“Positive psychology is both a movement and a science. The movement involves absolutely anyone who is interested in evidence-based approaches to improving well-being, either for themselves or for their community. I invite you to join this movement!”

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Author:Barbara Fredrickson

“You know that saying 'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing'? That's so true of positive psychology. Our latest research tells us that the pursuit of happiness is a delicate art. Certain approaches to seeking happiness are now known to backfire, whereas others are effective.”

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Author:Barbara Fredrickson

“Positive thinking is just one small part of positive psychology. Plus, as an approach to well-being, positive thinking only helps you to the extent that it yields one or more positive emotions. The problem with positive thinking is that it sometimes just stays up "in the head" and fails to drip down to become a fully embodied experience.”

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Author:Barbara Fredrickson

“My all-time favorite topic in positive psychology is the study of positive emotions. I'm fascinated by how pleasant experiences, which can be so subtle and fleeting, can add up over time to change who we become. I'm especially excited these days about investigating how positive emotions change the very ways that our cells form and function to keep us healthy.”

“Positivity psychology is part and parcel of psychology. Being human includes both ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. Positive psychology devotes somewhat more attention to the ups and the opportunities, whereas traditional psychology - at least historically - has paid more attention to the downs.”

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Author:Barbara Fredrickson

“Maybe, through the stories I share about my life and others and the medical research that has been dedicated to the world of positive psychology, they'll relate to the power of a positive perspective and change the world one person at a time. Pipe dream, of course, but I love the thought of being given the chance to inspire!”

“Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.”

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Author:Tyler Knott Gregson

“What I remember the most about my childhood is constant fear and "good food." I don't want to get into the greasy, buttery, deep-fried, fatty, sugary, meaty, barbecued details here, but with no knowledge of healthy lifestyles or positive psychology, time took its toll on me.”

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Author:Bryant H. McGill

“My view on well-being and fulfillment comes from Maslow and positive psychology, and that is that you're satisfying three sets of needs. First need is physiological and safety needs: Got to satisfy those first. And the second is you got to satisfy your community needs because we're social animals, and if we don't have that, we're empty and we don't have people to share knowledge and bounce things off of, and challenge ourselves. And then the third is the idea is to find a calling.”

“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.”

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Book:On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy

Source: On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy

“A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.”

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Book:Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

“Part of positive psychology is about being positive, but sometimes laughter and clowns are not appropriate. Some people don't want to be happy, and that's okay. They want meaningful lives, and those are not always the same as happy lives.”

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Book:The Geography of Bliss

Source: The Geography of Bliss

“When you appreciate the good, the good appreciates.”

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Book:Choose the Life You Want: The Mindful Way to Happiness

Source: Choose the Life You Want: The Mindful Way to Happiness

“When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.”

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Book:Authentic Happiness

Source: Authentic Happiness

“The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also building the best qualities in life.”

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Author:Martin Seligman

“So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few and only ephemeral pleasures, with minimal gratifications, and without meaning, there is a road out. This road takes you through the countryside of pleasure and gratification, up into the high country of strength and virtue, and finally to the peaks of lasting fulfillment: meaning and purpose”

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Book:Authentic Happiness

Source: Authentic Happiness

“Positive psychology is to the corporate state what eugenics was to the Nazis”

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Book:Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

Source: Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

“As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself.”

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Author:Erich Fromm

“Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.”

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Author:Marsha M. Linehan

“Life can show up no other way than that way in which you perceive it.”

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Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.”

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Author:Martin Seligman

“The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.”

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Author:Robert Biswas-Diener

“You don't have to be the best at something. You just have to be the most determined.”

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Author:Lauren Burns

“Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative.”

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Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1935-1937

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1935-1937

“By activating an expansive, tolerant, and creative mindset, positive feelings maximize the social, intellectual, and physical benefits that will accrue.”

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Book:Authentic Happiness

Source: Authentic Happiness

“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.”

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Author:Martin Seligman

“Reaching beyond where you are is really important.”

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Author:Martin Seligman

“A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.”

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Author:Ariel Gore