Quotes

"sense of belonging correlates with a range of positive outcomes, including higher self-esteem, greater life satisfaction, faster recovery from disease, lower levels of stress, less mental illness, and a longer life. Loneliness, social isolation, and the lack of social support place a person at high risk for psychological distress, physical and mental illness, and early mortality."Michelle McQuaid Your Wellbeing Blueprint

“Happiness is best when shared.”Carol Adams Miller Getting Grit

"Knowing the strengths of our significant others, and sharing our strengths with them, can help us avoid some of the frictions and frustrations that can arise from differences in our personalities, and it can help make the relationship itself greater than the sum of its parts."Suzann and James Pawelski Happy Together

The glory days are not behind you, you architect them into your future, by levelling up. Create each day of glory. It’s a choice! Write a new chapter of glory in your life. Make every day a glorious glory dayBrendan Burchard GrowthDay Daily Fire (multiple dates)

"Grief over a loving attachment is in some ways still a positive emotion that in time helps us to broaden and build."Shonnon Poly et al. Character Strengths Matter

"Transcendence is related to dedication and commitment to something or somebody other than oneself."Ilona Boniwell Positive Psychology in a Nutshell

"Your program should include these two categories: personal development and professional development. Under each category, commit to learning material that will yield both present benefit and future benefit. Put aside regular times each day for your education."Tal Ben-Shahar Even Happier

"Not only is happiness an important goal in its own right, but it is also part of our adaptive evolutionary nature – helping us respond to any challenges we face."Nic Marks The Happiness Manifesto

"Happiness accumulates a bit like compound interest – a little effort today will go a long way tomorrow."Timothy Sharp 100 Ways to Happiness

"One key to happiness, then, is to forestall the adaptation process: We need to take steps to prevent ourselves from taking for granted, once we get them, the things we worked so hard to get."William B. Irvine A Guide to the Good Life

"Researchers have found that across history, suicide rates tend to rise with unemployment—and it’s easy to understand why: Work is a major source of identity, value, and purpose for people. It gives them something to do with their time, a sense of worth, and an opportunity to contribute to society and to support their families. When people lose their jobs, they are losing not only their livelihood, but a powerful source of meaning."Emily Esfahani-Smith The Power of Meaning

"But some of the internal causes of low resilience, such as thinking styles, can be modified, even counteracted. And, more important, once your thinking style has changed, you can use it to undo the ongoing negative consequences that stemmed from events in your childhood that were outside your control."Karen Reivich The Resilience Factor

"They understand that life isn’t always easy, but they continue to act according to their most cherished values and pursue their big, long-term goals. They still experience feelings of anger, sadness, and so on—who doesn’t?—but they face these with curiosity, self-compassion, and acceptance. And rather than letting these feelings derail them, emotionally agile people effectively turn themselves—warts and all—toward their loftiest ambitions."Susan David Emotional Agility

"Living at a time when our society is beleaguered by materialism, generosity is an essential medicine to combat the striving for more."Dave Toycen he Power of Generosity

"Realized strengths are the strengths of which you are aware already and use, which in turn enable you to perform at your best."Kate Hefferon Positive Psychology

"Being social is the most successful form of higher adaptation known."Martin E.P. Seligman Flourish

"Most of the time when we are blocked in an area of our life, it is because we feel safer that way. We may not be happy, but at least we know what we are—unhappy."Julia Cameron The Artist's Way

"Agreeableness The value an individual places on cooperation with others. It is characterised by warmth and sympathy towards others." (John Perry, Sport Psychology)John Perry Sport Psychology

"workaholism leads to lack of sleep, which, in turn, leads to not being at our best." "Rob yourself of sleep and you’ll find you do not function at your personal best."Arianna Huffington Thrive

"So what is my definition of happiness? It’s intangible. It can’t be attained or achieved. You don’t chase it. It’s sequential. It comes after you work on building up traits like hope, efficacy, resilience, optimism, gratitude and empathy. Then, when those upstream habits are formed, you get a chance to see happiness when it’s in front of you. You get the chance to stop missing it when it flies by."Jennifer Moss Unlocking Happiness at Work

"The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button."Bene Brown

"This emotional uplift is elevation, and we humans are designed to feel it when we see a morally beautiful act."Robert Biswas-Diener The Courage Quotient

"welcome to the twenty first century world. A world in which a growing number of people do not feel that they are fully living their “true selves” – that their life is not full but more like a half-life?"Sarajane Aris et al. Beyond Resilience

High-quality interpersonal relationships provide a source of joy and meaning across the lifespan, and they have been identified as one of the most reliable indicators of happiness, health, longevity, and life satisfaction for all ages.Investing in Valued Relationships Diener & Seligman, 2002; Pillemer & Rothbard, 2018 PERMA-Pak, Positive Psychology Toolkit, PositivePsychology.com

"Gratitude is an antidote to negative emotions, a neutralizer of envy, avarice, hostility, worry, and irritation."Sonja Lyubomirsky The How of Happiness

...couples who make an effort to express fondness and admiration have been shown to experience a ‘build-up’ of positivity over time, leading to a longevity bonus of about 10 years (Fredrickson, 2009).Relationships and longevity Barbara Fredrickson PERMA-Pak, Positive Psychology Toolkit, PositivePsychology.com

"You have to create goals that are worthy of your failure. It is the Mount Everest of your life, and your mission—everything you strive to do from this day forward—is targeted towards making it happen. You will either reach the peak of your dreams, or fail trying."Scott Allan Supercharge Your Best Life

"Personal growth is an ongoing investment. For every hour you spend on improving your lifestyle, the return on this investment is 10x. Or 100x. You can make exponential growth in your life and the lives of everyone you are in contact with by making personal growth a #1 priority. Build small habits into your daily routine. Make these habits consistent with your aim. If you skip a day, be sure to pick it up the next day."Scott Allan Supercharge Your Best Life

it takes just minutes to dramatically shift someone’s mood from neutral to negative simply with news reports."Michelle Gielan Broadcasting Happiness

"Is there someone in your life whom you would feel comfortable phoning at four in the morning to tell your troubles to? If your answer is yes, you will likely live longer than someone whose answer is no."Martin E. P. Seligman Flourish

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