Martin Seligman Quotes

We have children to pursue other elements of well-being. We want meaning in life. We want relationships.

Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment.

It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness.

I want to live a full life - period.

The goal isn't to be successful; it's to be happy. And so it doesn't matter if I'm doing things in New York or teaching high school or I drop it altogether and sell coffee. The goal is to be happy, and people and relationships are what makes you happy.

After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.

There's just so many things I wanna do. At the end of the day, I wanna be happy.

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.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.

I've created the life I wanted.

Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings you the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run.

..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.

Success? I don't know what that word means. I'm happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody's eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.

The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.

I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

The will of man is his happiness.

Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.

The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

I hope that they are finding satisfaction. I'm in no way making a judgment. I know it doesn't make me happy.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

I think success is finding happiness! Everyone certainly has different goals in life, and things that are important to them, and also things that are not important to them.