Quotes
Authors
Martin Seligman

"The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power, or goodness. A life that does this is pregnant with meaning, and if God comes at the end, such a life is sacred."

Source : Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.224, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

Martin Seligman

#Meaningful Quotes #Good Life Quotes #Signatures Quotes

“I think the popular concept of the artist is a person who has this great passion and enthusiasm and super emotion. He just throws himself into this great masterpiece and collapses from exhaustion when it's finished. It's really not that way at all.”
“It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.”
“You're taught that you need to please magazines, to please the fashion elite, and that if you do everything the right way, everyone is going to love you. But I decided not to follow some of the rules. My girls from the runway were not just models - they were soldiers. They helped me bring my ideas to life. I was talking about sexiness, about diversity, about different shapes of bodies. I was following my instincts and learning that it would not please the fashion elite. And I think this is the real luxury, to be free to express yourself. Freedom is luxury to me.”
“I can't think of an instance at MSNBC where anything I said on the air was influenced by what was going on behind the scenes.”
“They don't keep their promises in the promised land, its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.”
“Not surprisingly, extensive effort in Britain and America goes into finding tax shelter. the system is "efficient" for the shelter industry, not for the economy.”

Source : Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.188, University of Pennsylvania Press
“The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships, material possessions.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“There is just this for consolation: an hour here or there, when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined , though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) knows these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning, we hope, more than anything, for more. Heaven only knows why we love it so.”

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