"The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually."

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Source : Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.16, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

Martin Seligman

#Exercise Quotes #People Quotes #Joy Quotes

“People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests. Neither love nor charity nor any other sympathetic sentiments but rightly understood selfishness is what originally impelled man to adjust himself to the requirements of society, to respect the rights and freedoms of his fellow men and to substitute peaceful collaboration for enmity and conflict.”
“Preventing people from illegally immigrating to the United States should be the primary purpose of Customs and Border Protection.”
“...the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.”
“I am deeply convince that the necessity of prayer, and to pray unceasingly, is not as much based on our desire for God as on God's desire for us. It is God's passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.”
“It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.”

Source : David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.177, Transaction Publishers
“I believe that everyone should have a dream and believe in it. Make it real, bring it to life. You'll never regret trying. Trying is what strengthens your heart and delivers courage. Once you believe in yourself, nothing can stop you.”
“In good relationships, we are happy to grow as the other person becomes part of us and who we are.”
“What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is genuine is reconstructed as quickly as possible, to resemble the false.”

Source : Guy Debord (1998). “Comments on the Society of the Spectacle”, p.50, Verso

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