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#1

“While you can't control your experiences, you can control your explanations.”
― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

tags: medications, optimism, speculations, thinking, thought

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#2

“Authentic happiness derives from raising the bar for yourself, not rating yourself against others.”
― Martin E.P. Seligman, Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment

54 likes

#3

“Curing the negatives does not produce the positives.”
― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

46 likes

#4

“Pessimistic labels lead to passivity, whereas optimistic ones lead to attempts to change.”
― Martin E.P. Seligman, What You Can Change . . . and What You Can't*: The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement

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#5

“The genius of evolution lies in the dynamic tension between optimism and pessimism continually correcting each other.”
― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

24 likes

#6

“Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

tags: consciousness, happiness, quality-of-life

268 likes

#7

“A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

128 likes

#8

“Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

tags: flow, inspirational

109 likes

#9

“...It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

109 likes

#10

“the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

49 likes

#11

“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
― Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense

tags: books, friendship

4243 likes

#12

“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”
― Abraham Maslow

tags: tools

1495 likes

#13

“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
― Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being

tags: assumptions, hammer, instrumentalism, problem-solving, psychology, science, temptation

1083 likes

#14

“It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”
― Abraham Harold Maslow

tags: desire, psychology, self-awareness, understanding

325 likes

#15

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be”
― Abraham Maslow

tags: random

209 likes

#16

“We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.”
― Abraham Maslow

tags: disbelief, explain, gods, good, heroes, sages, statesmen, supernatural, superstition, wisdom, wise

166 likes

#17

“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”
― Abraham Maslow

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