“Positive emotions are not trivial luxuries, but instead might be critical necessities for optimal functioning.”

The negative screams at you but the positive only whispers.

Flourishing goes beyond happiness, or satisfaction with life. True, people who flourish are happy. But that’s not the half of it. Beyond feeling good, they’re also doing good-adding value to the world.

Love is that micro-moment of warmth and connection that you share with another living being

Positive people are able to maintain a broader perspective and see the big picture which helps them identify solutions where as negative people maintain a narrower perspective and tend to focus on problems.

It turns out that unexplained positivity lasts longer than positivity we analyze until we fully understand it.

Positivity doesn’t just change the contents of your mind…It widens the span of possibilities that you see.

The benefits of positive emotions don’t stop after a few minutes of good feelings subside. In fact, the biggest benefit that positive emotions provide is an enhanced ability to build skills and develop resources for use later in life.

Love requires you to be physically and emotionally present. It also requires that you slow down.

Positivity opens us. The first core truth about positive emotions is that they open our hearts and our minds, making us more receptive and more creative.

Positive psychology is both a movement and a science. The movement involves absolutely anyone who is interested in evidence-based approaches to improving well-being, either for themselves or for their community. I invite you to join this movement!

Positivity transforms us for the better.

When we inject people with positivity, their outlook expands. They see the big picture. When we inject them with neutrality or negativity, their peripheral vision shrinks. There is no big picture, no dots to connect.

Flourishing is not a solo endeavor.

Scientists have shown that because positive and open mindsets produce exploration and experiential learning, they also come to produce more-accurate mental maps of the world.

The boundaries between you and not-you – what lies beyond your skin – relax and become more permeable. While infused with love you see fewer distinctions between you and others. Indeed, your ability to see others – really see them, wholeheartedly – springs open.

Love is a momentary upwelling of three tightly interwoven events: First, a sharing of one or more positive emotions between you and another; second, a synchrony between your and the other person’s biochemistry and behaviors; and third, a reflected motive to invest in each other’s well-being that brings mutual care

Don’t ever turn down pleasure because you were afraid of what other people might say.

I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.

I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it’s impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.

If the Bible didn’t show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities, the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.

Agriculture’s not insulated from having a percentage of people who might be really good old graziers, but they’re no good as business people.

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

You don’t need Beanie Sigel in the building with a pre-perception that this crazy dude might do anything.

Giving opportunities to other people, it’s only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.