Browsing Topic Best Positive Psychology Quotes

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.

You know that saying ‘A little knowledge is a dangerous thing’? That’s so true of positive psychology. Our latest research tells us that the pursuit of happiness is a delicate art. Certain approaches to seeking happiness are now known to backfire, whereas others are effective.

Positive psychology is both a movement and a science. The movement involves absolutely anyone who is interested in evidence-based approaches to improving well-being, either for themselves or for their community. I invite you to join this movement!

My all-time favorite topic in positive psychology is the study of positive emotions. I’m fascinated by how pleasant experiences, which can be so subtle and fleeting, can add up over time to change who we become. I’m especially excited these days about investigating how positive emotions change the very ways that our cells form and function to keep us healthy.

A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

Positivity psychology is part and parcel of psychology. Being human includes both ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. Positive psychology devotes somewhat more attention to the ups and the opportunities, whereas traditional psychology – at least historically – has paid more attention to the downs.

My view on well-being and fulfillment comes from Maslow and positive psychology, and that is that you’re satisfying three sets of needs. First need is physiological and safety needs: Got to satisfy those first. And the second is you got to satisfy your community needs because we’re social animals, and if we don’t have that, we’re empty and we don’t have people to share knowledge and bounce things off of, and challenge ourselves. And then the third is the idea is to find a calling.

Part of positive psychology is about being positive, but sometimes laughter and clowns are not appropriate. Some people don’t want to be happy, and that’s okay. They want meaningful lives, and those are not always the same as happy lives.

As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself.

Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative.

When you appreciate the good, the good appreciates.

Reaching beyond where you are is really important.

You don’t have to be the best at something. You just have to be the most determined.

The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also building the best qualities in life.