Martin Seligman
Related When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don'... FREDDIE HIGHMORE MARTHA BECK I was very depressed at a young age and felt like I didn't have agency towards that. Being '... PETRA COLLINS GERMANY KENT TARAJI P. HENSON All you need to do is turn on the news, and in five minutes, you're depressed with the state of ... BILLY PORTER Just be happy, and if you can't be happy, do things that make you happy. Or do nothing with the peop... ESTHER EARL DANNY MEYER MATT DILLON The only person that can make you angry, sad or happy is you. JEFFREY BENJAMIN You can't be happy if you're not tolerably happy with yourself. The addition of friends adds... PATRICK O'BRIAN DANA CARVEY GOLDA MEIR JOHN FORBES NASH, JR. MARIA SHRIVER There's so much to argue about. That was the goal with 'Really Really.' Somebody asked m... PAUL DOWNS COLAIZZO BRITTANY SNOW EVANGELINE LILLY The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are ... BRUCE FORSYTH I don't think you should try to be anything you're not. If you're not smiling all the ti... ELLE FANNING NAOMI JUDD ARUNDHATI ROY GERMANY KENT Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will b... KURT MASUR MARIA BAMFORD HILARY MANTEL Football is one of those games that definitely relates to life in a lot of ways. Everything can be g... TORREY SMITH GERMANY KENT RUSSELL BRAND DIANE LANE ROZONDA THOMAS When I used to say I wanted to play at Wimbledon, they used to laugh in my face and say, 'What a... SANIA MIRZA DEEPIKA PADUKONE DANICA MCKELLAR ANNETTE BENING WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Either you're this, or you're that: either you're - if you're a Pakistani, you'r... MIRA NAIR People who weren't there can say it was idiotic or shortsighted, but when you're in a moment... BOB MORLEY You might be asking too much if you're looking for one vaccine for every conceivable influenza. ... ANTHONY FAUCI AARON RODGERS Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they&#... DON KNOTTS VICTORIA PRINCIPAL ALICE WALKER GILLIAN FLYNN NICKI MINAJ If you're a poker player and you show up at a casino at 8 a.m., you're going to be by yourse... CHRIS MONEYMAKER If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all ... KATE DEL CASTILLO TONY KUSHNER JENNIFER GRANHOLM BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing yo... ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER JESSICA LANGE CHRISTINE GREGOIRE With Facebook, you're not really allowed to be unhappy. Think about it: There's only a like ... YISHAN WONG I think it's very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising tea... CHARLIE HADEN If you're filming a scene on horseback, if you're trying to control an animal that's muc... DANIEL PORTMAN Psychologists say don't expect your life to be happy all the time. I go with the philosophy that... SHIRLEY EATON CRAIG GROESCHEL Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you&... WALT HANDELSMAN I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like tha... BRADLEY COOPER ETHAN CANIN DAMIEN HIRST JOHN FORBES NASH, JR. I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employe... LANCE BURTON SAM SMITH ANGELINA JOLIE BRYAN BATT STEPHEN RICHARDS ALEXANDRA STODDARD Be mobile at all times, even if it causes you suffering or feelings of loneliness. Unless you're... OLEG CASSINI MAYA ANGELOU I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that's not always the case when you're married. OLIVIER MARTINEZ One of the reasons I didn't ever pursue a career - in the music world if you're black or mix... CARMEN EJOGO If you're afraid of death, I would say, either fight for your life or come to grips with the fac... ROBBY BENSON MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI Sometimes you’re sad, you listen to sad music, you relate to the lyrics, you sulk, and that is alr... DANDELIONLADY96 I'm one of these people who doesn't say that objectivity is not within our reach. I think if... LIZ TROTTA Satan wants you to believe that you don't have a choice in the matter. You can't be happy until thin... LINDSEY RIETZSCH IRIS APFEL MINDY GROSSMAN NICK CAVE The way you build trust with your team is around super-clear communication in that instant when they... DICK COSTOLO I couldn't not be who I am. That bubble eventually bursts down the road. So you just have to be ... TERESA HEINZ To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something tha... MARY LYNN RAJSKUB BERTRAND RUSSELL BERTRAND RUSSEL BERTRAND RUSSELL GERMANY KENT You can be right or you can be happy. GERALD JAMPOLSKY LEO TOLSTOY I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing ... NICHOLAS HOULT GARY VAYNERCHUK ZIG ZIGLAR VANESSA HUDGENS I like happy endings in movies. I think life has a happy ending. When it's all said and done, it... JON FAVREAU Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU
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Because anybody can serve..
You only need a heart full of grace.
A soul gene... MARTIN A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. MARTIN MARTIN SCORSESE MARTIN FILLER We know what molecules are needed to sense light - what turns that signal that detects light into an... MARTIN CHALFIE MARTIN LUTHER MARTIN SCORSESE STEVE MARTIN MARTIN HEIDEGGER MARTIN HEIDEGGER MARTIN HEIDEGGER MARTIN HEIDEGGER MARTIN HEIDEGGER MARTIN HEIDEGGER MARTIN HEIDEGGER MARTIN HEIDEGGER MARTIN HEIDEGGER MARTIN HEIDEGGER MARTIN HEIDEGGER MARTIN HEIDEGGER MARTIN HEIDEGGER MARTIN HEIDEGGER MARTIN HEIDEGGER MARTIN HEIDEGGER MARTIN HEIDEGGER MARTIN HEIDEGGER MARTIN HEIDEGGER MARTIN HEIDEGGER MARTIN SCORSESE MARTIN FREEMAN STEVE MARTIN STEVE MARTIN STEVE MARTIN STEVE MARTIN STEVE MARTIN STEVE MARTIN STEVE MARTIN STEVE MARTIN STEVE MARTIN STEVE MARTIN STEVE MARTIN STEVE MARTIN STEVE MARTIN STEVE MARTIN STEVE MARTIN STEVE MARTIN STEVE MARTIN STEVE MARTIN It's music. It's supposed to be fun and inspirational. You have to be inspired. If I did it ... 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To complete your daily mental hygiene, observe any part of you that is upset or anxious, and offer t... 
Whether you choose to move on from your struggles and enjoy life or waddle in your misery, life will... 
It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies i... 
A great restaurant is one that just makes you feel like you're not sure whether you went out or ... 
I'm ambitious. I do think you have a tendency to be less happy sometimes when you're a seeke... 
The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things tha... 
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. 
I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don't develop a mental illness b... 
Women somehow get portrayed as one type. You're either a feminist or you're not. You're ... 
I'm a huge believer in you don't really need anybody to make you feel validated or make you ... 
Even if you're unhappy, just pretend that you're happy. Eventually, your smile will be conta... 
They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number... 
The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... 
I was raised in Duluth, Minnesota, where you never say that you're cold, or that you're suff... 
Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say... 
Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... 
I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy ... 
To be honest, relationships with the opposite sex are the most challenging things I've done. You... 
I want everybody to know that I don't care who you are, where you're from, if you're pop... 
Being sad and being depressed are two different things. Also, people going through depression don... 
If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart. 
It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl'... 
To be, or not to be, that is the question. 
You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when... 
Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, succe... 
I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you ... 
I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple. 
When you're a girl, you have to be everything, You have to be dope at what you do, but you have ... 
If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, ... 
The whole purpose was to say that it doesn't have to be a zero sum. It's not the environment... 
There is an English saying that the king is always happy, or, 'happy as the king' - which is... 
What I love about photography, and it's the same thing I love about acting, really, is that it f... 
I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they... 
If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a frien... 
Mathematicians don't like it when they're associated with mental illness and sort of bristle... 
But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - o... 
People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness ca... 
I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've al... 
I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not b... 
I firmly believe that life is an 'and' proposition and not an 'or' one. If you reall... 
Be open to the realization that who you were before and who you are now are two different people, an... 
A home should be an intimate autobiography of the things that you like. One of the things I'm so... 
If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a per... 
Finishing is one of the most difficult things to do in cricket. A player can't be a finisher in ... 
You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy thi... 
I believe in accessibility. I believe in honesty and a culture that supports that. And you can't... 
No, I wouldn't direct a movie, no. I couldn't. I don't have the patience for it, I don&#... 
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be hap... 
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be hap... 
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be hap... 
If you want to be happy, be. 
People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're j... 
To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gu... 
You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy. 
It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that ... 
I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is... 
Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to ... 
It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapid... 
Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of t... 
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the soc... 
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God'... 
When I'm making a film, I'm the audience. 
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is. 
When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this:... 
The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism. 
The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being. 
My idea of a good night out is staying in. 
I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper. 
I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the ... 
Nothing good ever comes of violence. 
What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in th... 
Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gif... 
I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremel... 
Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same... 
The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door. 
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out. 
The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid. 
Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really w... 
Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fictio... 
Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have... 
In the aftermath of 9/11 and in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, few questioned the idea that t... 
The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was b... 
We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long ... 
Of course, New Brighton is very shabby, very rundown, but people still go there because it's the... 
If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British go... 
Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being rel... 
I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distra... 
Sometimes I use my jokes as building blocks for larger bits. I like to draw and play music, so somet... 
Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets ... 
'Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a differe... 
Given the scale of issues like global warming and epidemic disease, we shouldn't underestimate t... 