Optimal Functioning Quotes

We have three centers: the emotional center, the intellectual center, and the physical body center. Each one of them has its own intelligence. How much better would we be if all three were working in unison?

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

I was only operating at about 80% of my capacity.

It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only when we are living at 100%-when we are fully using the physical and mental equipment we have been given.

Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

The really top guys play within themselves 99 percent of the time.

Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.

No one with a body full of aliments can have a luminous soul and other intellectual faculties. It is necessary to care for the body if we wish the spirit to function normally.

It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.

Everything is firing on all cylinders for me.

With body, mind, and spirit functioning perfectly as a coordinated whole, what else could reasonably be expected other than an active, alert, disciplined person?

What are the enabling conditions that make human beings flourish? How do we get from zero to plus five?

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.

Aiming at health, restoring health - that is a goal that is both morally important and limited, because it aims at the restoration of normal human functioning, which is an important part of human flourishing.

Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.

For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.

Even biology tells us that a high degree of habitual well-being is not advantageous to a living organism.

I just think things should work properly.

Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together in harmony.