Quotes

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

"Next comes meaning and purpose, which require connecting our individual passion to a cause much greater than ourselves."Steven Kotler The Art of Impossible

"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

"Make a note of something you learned through conversing with a colleague, reading an article, or listening during a meeting. In your note, include a brief explanation of why what you learned matters, as well as how this knowledge can be applied."Erin Lawn Your Strengths Blueprint

"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

"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

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

"If you exercise today, you are more than twice as likely to feel physically attractive tomorrow. Feeling attractive is not just important for our self-confidence. Researchers at Columbia University found that our psychological perceptions of our body image could be as important as objective measures like body mass index (BMI)."Tom Rath Wellbeing

"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

"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

"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

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

"The face of happiness may be someone who is intensely curious and enthusiastic about learning; it may be someone who is engrossed in plans for his next five years; it may be someone who can distinguish between the things that matter and the things that don’t; it may be someone who looks forward each night to reading to her child. Some happy people may appear outwardly cheerful or transparently serene, and others are simply busy. In other words, we all have the potential to be happy, each in our own way."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

"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

"Even engaging in pleasant activities does not guarantee positive emotions, because they depend on our interpretations."Ilona Boniwell Positive Psychology in a Nutshell

"When you're surrounded by the extraordinary every day, it's bound to become ordinary."Stefan Mumawy Caffeine for the Creative Team

"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

"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 is best when shared.”Carol Adams Miller Getting Grit

"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

"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

“No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.”Julia Cameron It's Never Too Late to Begin Again

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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"We need to ask ourselves: what makes life worthwhile? what makes us happy, inside? what do we value most about life?"Mark Anielski The Economics of Happiness

"self-regulation is both the ability to control our emotions and the ability to persist through challenging, strenuous tasks."Steven Kotler The Art of Impossible

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