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Instant enlightenment. A quintessential modernism, culture and religion accommodated to the age of fast food and bumper stickers. But psyche and spirit are not so exempt from the natural domain that they can simply produce self-change instantaneously, on demand. Wisdom precipitates through a notoriously slow apparatus of retorts and flasks, and it has to find receptive ground only in a properly seasoned mind.

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Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.

Pessimist, Setbacks, Tragedies, Tragedy, Weather, Weathers
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Reaching beyond where you are is really important.

Important, Positive Psychology, Reaching

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.

Contentment, Happiness, Hope, Mean, Pleasure, Pride

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.

Medicine, People, Sports, Strengths, Work

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

Believe, Causes, Circumstances, People, Things

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.

Acts, Humanity, Justice, Person, Six, Virtuous
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