Barbara Fredrickson famous quotes

03-25-2025

Love is that micro-moment of warmth and connection that you share with another living being
-- Barbara Fredrickson

#Love Is #Connections #Moments
Love is a momentary upwelling of three tightly interwoven events: First, a sharing of one or more positive emotions between you and another; second, a synchrony between your and the other personâ€™s biochemistry and behaviors; and third, a reflected motive to invest in each otherâ€™s well-being that brings mutual care
-- Barbara Fredrickson

#Love Is #Events #Three
Flourishing goes beyond happiness, or satisfaction with life. True, people who flourish are happy. But that's not the half of it. Beyond feeling good, they're also doing good-adding value to the world.
-- Barbara Fredrickson

#People #Feel Good #Feelings
Positive people are able to maintain a broader perspective and see the big picture which helps them identify solutions where as negative people maintain a narrower perspective and tend to focus on problems.
-- Barbara Fredrickson

#People #Perspective #Focus
Positive emotions are not trivial luxuries, but instead might be critical necessities for optimal functioning.
-- Barbara Fredrickson

#Luxury #Might #Emotion
The benefits of positive emotions don't stop after a few minutes of good feelings subside. In fact, the biggest benefit that positive emotions provide is an enhanced ability to build skills and develop resources for use later in life.
-- Barbara Fredrickson

#Skills #Feelings #Use
Positivity doesn't just change the contents of your mind...It widens the span of possibilities that you see.
-- Barbara Fredrickson

#Positivity #Mind #Emotion
Scientists have shown that because positive and open mindsets produce exploration and experiential learning, they also come to produce more-accurate mental maps of the world.
-- Barbara Fredrickson

#Positive #World #Maps
Love requires you to be physically and emotionally present. It also requires that you slow down.
-- Barbara Fredrickson

#Slow Down
The negative screams at you but the positive only whispers.
-- Barbara Fredrickson

#Negative #Scream
Flourishing is not a solo endeavor.
-- Barbara Fredrickson

#Flourishing #Solo #Endeavor
Positivity transforms us for the better.
-- Barbara Fredrickson

#Positive #Positivity
It turns out that unexplained positivity lasts longer than positivity we analyze until we fully understand it.
-- Barbara Fredrickson

#Positive #Positivity #Lasts
When we inject people with positivity, their outlook expands. They see the big picture. When we inject them with neutrality or negativity, their peripheral vision shrinks. There is no big picture, no dots to connect.
-- Barbara Fredrickson

#Positive #Positivity #People
The boundaries between you and not-you â€” what lies beyond your skin â€” relax and become more permeable. While infused with love you see fewer distinctions between you and others. Indeed, your ability to see others â€” really see them, wholeheartedly â€” springs open.
-- Barbara Fredrickson

#Spring #Lying #Love You
Positivity opens us. The first core truth about positive emotions is that they open our hearts and our minds, making us more receptive and more creative.
-- Barbara Fredrickson

#Positive #Heart #Positivity

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