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I think most folks are good folks.

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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.

Believe, Causes, Circumstances, People, Things
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Reaching beyond where you are is really important.

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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

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

The pursuit of happiness is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence as a right of all Americans, as well as on the self-improvement shelves of every American bookstore. Yet the scientific evidence makes it seem unlikely that you can change your level of happiness in any sustainable way. It suggests that we each have a fixed range for happiness just as we do for weight. And just as dieters almost always regain the weight they lose, sad people don't become lastingly happy, and happy people don't become lastingly sad.

Happy, Lastingly, People, Pursuit Of Happiness, Range, Self
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