1.The soul grows by subtraction,not addition-Thoreau
2.Self-actualization -helping the person to become the best that he is able to become–Abraham Maslow
3.Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.-Neil Postman
4.”The aim of positive psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also building the best qualities in life”–Martin Seligman
5.It seems more and more clear that what we call “normal” in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don’t even notice it ordinarily.
6.” all history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one” Ralph waldo emerson
7.” Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has” Margaret Mead
8.We underestimate our capacity to effect change because we underestimate the growth of an exponential function
9.Our readiness and potential to experience happiness is mostly dependent on our state of mind, not on our status or the state of our bank account.
10.”Nature to be acommanded must be obeyed”–Francis Bacon
11.”God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change ,the courage to change the things I can change, and the wisdom to know the difference.”–Reinhold Niebuhr
12.”Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” Aristotle
13.”If we were to ask the question: ‘What is human life’s chief concern?’ one of the answers we should receive would be: ‘it is happiness.’ How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness, is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.” William James
14.”Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, the very purpose of our life is happiness, the very motion of our life is towards happiness.”
15.”Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.Happiness never decreases by being shared.’ Buddha
16.”Be the change you want to see in the world.” Gandhi
17.We are what we think, All that we are arises with our thoughts.WIth our thoughts, we make our world–The Buddha
18.” False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.’–Abraham Maslow
19.” I am a great believer in luck, and i find that the harder I work, the luckier I get.” –Thomas Jefferson
20.” To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”–Soren
21.” I failed my way to success”–Thomas Edison
22.”Whatever your mind can conceive and believe it can achieve.”–Napoleon HIll
23.Whether you think you can or can’t–you are right.”Henry Ford
24.”Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.”–Norman Vincent Peale
25.” Beliefs in personal efficacy affect life choice, level of motivation, quality of functioning, resilience to adversity and vulnerability to stress and depression.”
26.”People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, ad feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious. They produce their own future , rather than simply foretell it.”
27.” It appears that the way people perceive the world is much more important to happiness than objective circumstances.” Ed Diener
28.”To the different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
29.”Nothing is good or bad but thinking make it so.”–William Shakespeare
30.”We see what we look for and we miss much of what we are not looking for even though it is there…Our experience of the world is heavily influenced by where we place our attention.”–Stavros and Torres
31.’The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”–Ralph Waldo Emerson
32.”Never let a good crisis go to waste.”–Anne Harbison
33.” Things don’t necessarily happen for the best, but some people are able to make the best of things that happen.
34.” A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”–Winston Churchill
35.”Greatfullness is the measure of our aliveness. Are we not deed to whatever we take for granted? Surely to be numb is to be dead.”
36.” We live in a ” given’ world.. what brings fulfillment is gratefulness, the simple response of our heart to this given life in all its fullness.”–Brother David steindl-Rast
37.”Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others”.–Cicero
38.”Those whose deeds exceed their wisdom, their wisdom shall endure;but those whose wisdom exceeds their deeds, their wisdom shall not endure.” Chapters of the fathers
39.”I can do a year’s work in nine months, but not in twelve.” JP Morgan
40.” Write continously bout the most upsetting or traumatic experience of your entire life. Don’t worry about grammar, spelling, or sentence structure. In your writing, I want you to discuss your deepest thoughts and feelings about the experience. You can write about anything you want. But whatever you choose, it should be something that has affected you very deeply. Ideally, it should be about something you have not talked about with others in detail. It is critical, however,that you let yourself go and touch those deepest emotions and thoughts that you have. In other words, write about what happened and how you felt about it, and how you feel about it now. Finally, you can write on different traumas during each session or the same one over the entire study. Your choice of trauma for each session is entirely up to you.”
41.”All of us have the capacity to be mindful. All it involves is cultivating our ability to pay attention in the present moment.” Jon kabatt-zin
42.”Mindfulness means seeing things as they are, without trying to change them. The point is to dissolve our reactions to disturbing emotions, being careful not to reject the emotion itself.”–Tara bennett-Goleman
43.” Think of the most wonderful experience or experiences in your life, happiest moments, ecstatic moments, moments of rapturem perhaps from being in love, or from listening to music, or suddenly “being hit” by a book or painting or from some great creative moment. Choose one such experience or moment. Try to imagine yourself at the moment, including all the feelings and emotions associated with the experience. Now write about the experience in as much details as possible trying to include the feelings, toughts,and emothions that were present at the time. Please try your best to reexperience the emotions involved.”
44.”To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”— Henry David Thoreau
45.”Being focused on a task produces organization for efficiency both within the organism and in the environment”–Abraham Maslow
46. ”Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it! Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it.” W.H Murray
47.Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain, nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; Happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak.”
48.”Contemporary researchers emphasize that it is the process of striving after goals-rather than goal attainment per se- that is crucial for happiness and positive affectivity.” David watson
49.Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song/ Live for the along. —Gwendolyn Brooks
50.Life is too short to do what I have to do; it’s barely long enough to do what I want to do.
51.” Becoming self concordant is a difficult skill, requiring both accurate self-perceptual abilities and the ability to resist social pressures that may sometimes push one in inappropriate directions.” Sheldon & Houser-Marco (2001)
52.”Having a strong sense of controlling one’s lif is a more dependable predictor of positive feeling of well-being than any of the objective conditions of life we have considered.” Angus Campbell
53.” Individuals pursuing self-concordant goals were ultimately able to exceed the level of academic achievement predicted by their ACT scores, even though moust goals were not directly class-or grade-related. This finding suggests that those people who can identify sets of goals that well represent their implicit interests and values are indeed able to function more efficiently, flexibly, and integratively aross all areas of their lives.”–Sheldon & Eliot (1999)
54.
The Three Question process (TQP)
- What is meaningful to me? What is important to me?
- What is pleasurable to me? What do i enjoy doing?
- What are my strengths? What am I good at?
55.”The most beautiful fate , the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.” –Abraham Maslow
56.”The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limites in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile”–Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
57.”It is doubtful whether any heavier curse could be imposed on man than the complete gratificaion of all his wishes without effort on his part,leaving nothing for his hopes, desires or struggles.”–Samuel Smiles
58.”People can imagine themselves taking steps, while great heights seem entirely forbidden.” Ellen Langer
59.Permission to be human
60.
Overcoming Procrastination
- The 5-minute take off
- Reward yourself
- Go public
- The tea approach
- Goals, plans, lists
- Permission to re-create
61.” Love and sex are affected negatively by stress… If we can help people to simplify their lives, thus reducing their stress levels, it is likely that people’s relationships would be enriched greatly. Moreover, the positive aspects of their lives would be enriched accordingly.” Susan & Clyde Hendrick (2002)
62.”Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.” Cyril Northcote Parkinson
63.”The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” Winston Churchill
64.”People seeking greater well-being would be well advised to focus on the pursuit of (a)goals involving growth, connection, and contribution rather than goals involving money, beauty, and popularity and (b) goals that are interesting and personally important to them rather than goals they feel forced or pressured to pursue.” Sheldon et al.(2004)
65.” Everybody thinks of chaning humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.” Leo Tolstoy
66.”Be the chaneg you want to see in the world.” Gandhi
