Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing … - Martin Seligman

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It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.

Martin Seligman

Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing.

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Reaching beyond where you are is really important.

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Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. Its about education, work, marriage - its even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.

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People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances.

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To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.

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It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.

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