Positive Psychology: Randumb Quotes

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Randumb Quotes

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
- Dr. Seuss

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness.
Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.

~ Scott Adams

"When I want your opinion, I'll beat it out of you"

- Dr Samuel Loomis

I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle, but if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
~ Marilyn Monroe

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever
- Mahatma Gandhi

Positive Psychology given credence by Academia:

Positive psychology is the scientific study of the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.

Commentators on the subject Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, note that:

"The field of positive psychology at the subjective level is about valued subjective experiences: well-being, contentment, and satisfaction (in the past); hope and optimism (for the future); and flow and happiness (in the present).

At the individual level, it is about positive individual traits: the capacity for love and vocation, courage, interpersonal skill, aesthetic sensibility, perseverance, forgiveness, originality, future mindedness, spirituality, high talent, and wisdom.

At the group level, it is about the civic virtues and the institutions that move individuals toward better citizenship: responsibility, nurturance, altruism, civility, moderation,tolerance, and work ethic."