"Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life."

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Source : Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.20, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

Martin Seligman

#Meaningful Quotes #Good Life Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“We, as a society, we have PhDs in victimizing a victim.”

Source : "The fight against sex slavery". TED Talk, www.ted.com. November 2009.
“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.”
“Why is Earth Day, today, also Lenin's birthday? Coincidence? Or does it signal the true intent of the national and worldwide environmental movement?”
“The first time I had sushi, I hated it. And the second time was no different, and then, I just started loving it. I actually crave for sushi. It's one of the healthiest meals. My experiments with food began when I was working in New York as an architect, be it Korean or Ethiopian food or fusion food.”
“My advice to any diplomat who wants to have good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.”
“Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader's senses”
“Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
“To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling.”

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