"The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification."

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

Martin Seligman

#Happiness Quotes #Good Life Quotes #Signatures Quotes

“When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books. I sneaked them at night. I rubbed their spines and sniffed in the musty smell of them in the library.”

Source : Lorene Cary (2010). “Black Ice”, p.27, Vintage
“I wish for you to stand up for what you care about by participating in a global art project, and together we'll turn the world...INSIDE OUT.”

Source : "My wish: Use art to turn the world inside out". TED Prize 2011, www.ted.com. March 2011.
“Spirit is not a mystic concept. The spirit of a person is manifest in her aliveness, brightness of his eyes, in the resonance of her voice and in the ease and gracefulness of his movements. These qualities are related to and stem from a high level of energy in the body... Sensing the harmony between the internal pulsation of our body and that in the universe, we feel identified with the universal, with God. We are like tuning forks vibrating at the same pitch”
“Abstinence is approved of God.”
“That's a very nice, generic-sounding question: "When did you know you were funny?" But it pre-supposes that I think I'm really hilarious. So that's kind of a loaded question.”
“The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.”
“Ideas are nothing, doing is everything”
“When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.”

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