Martin Seligman Quotes

Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy.

Good thinking brings good feeling and good feeling brings good thinking.

Feeling good" is your way of telling yourself that your last thought was truth, that your last word was wisdom, that your last action was love. To measure how highly you have evolved, simply look to see what makes you "feel good.

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater. [...] when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of your creative response to life and the universe; so love everybody.

Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows.

The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources lost to a person when the brain is ill.

Today's belief is tomorrow's behavior. If you want to be happier person tomorrow, sow seeds of happiness today.

The way to health, harmony, and happiness is primarily mental.

Happiness cannot come from hatred or anger. Nobody can say, 'Today I am happy because this morning I was angry.' On the contrary, people feel uneasy and sad and say, 'Today I am not very happy, because I lost my temper this morning.'

All that you really want in life is to change how you feel.

For 'wellness', naturally, is no cause for complaint - people relish it, they enjoy it, they are at the furthest pole from complaint. People complain of feeling ill - not well ... Thus, though a patient will scarcely complain of being 'very well', they may become suspicious if they feel 'too well'.

Gratitude incorporates both the heart and mind, and instantly paves the shortest road to happiness.

We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.

It's important to feel good.

We deal with our mind from morning until evening. This mind can be our best friend or our worst enemy. We should do everything we can to improve outer circumstances - remedying poverty, inequalities, conflicts, and so on - while also doing our best to achieve a state of mind that give us the inner resources to deal with the ups and downs of life.

Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.

My work is a support system for people to feel good about themselves.

Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.

The absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good

The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

The test in life nowadays is just trying to keep yourself charged up with enough good feeling. It's like, "OK what am I going to do to feel really good today?" Not like, some chick or a drink.

What we do about our feelings determines the quality of our relationship with ourselves.