The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.
Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.
Reaching beyond where you are is really important.
Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith, and trust. Those about the present include joy, ecstasy, calm, zest, ebullience, pleasure, and (most importantly) flow; these emotions are what most people usually mean when they casually-but much too narrowly-talk about "happiness. " The positive emotions about the past include satisfaction, contentment, fulfillment, pride, and serenity.
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.
People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances.
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.
I was very surprised when last I bought a packet of cigarettes and had to request a refund as I read a warning that told me 'smoking can cause fatal lung cancer'.
Sometimes Ronan thought Adam was so used to the right way being painful that he doubted any path that didn’t come with agony.
Cabinet members are soon overwhelmed by the insistent demands of running their departments. On the whole, a period in high office consumers intellectual capital; it does not create it. . . . The less ministers know at the outset, the more dependent they are on the only sources of available knowledge; the permanent officials.
Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.