"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."

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Source : Barbara Fredrickson (2009). “Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life”, p.17, Harmony

Barbara Fredrickson

#People Quotes #Feel Good Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“I just feel so lucky to tell stories and make up stories and share them with people.”
“It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.”
“You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don't have to.”
“I think any time you've got a story based on a true story, no matter how accurate it is, obviously it's still fictitious.”

Source : "Director John Lee Hancock Talks SAVING MR. BANKS, Why He Takes Time Between Projects, Working with Disney’s Legal Department, and THE AMERICAN CAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 18, 2013.
“I have a hyper personality.”
“Soon Hansel and Gretel came to a little cottage. When they got quite near, they saw that the little house was made of bread and roofed with cake. The windows were transparent sugar." "There must not have been a very strict building code...”
“The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me through life, and when I am very old, they will still be near . . .”
“A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.”

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