Authentic happiness is more than pleasant feeling.
Seligman distinguishes pleasure from engagement and meaning.
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Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment
7 memorable lines from Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment by Martin E.P. Seligman, each with the idea behind it.
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Signature strengths are meant to be used, not merely identified.
A strength becomes happiness practice when it enters ordinary work and relationships.
Engagement grows when ability meets challenge.
Flow asks for tasks that are hard enough to absorb attention.
Meaning expands happiness beyond the private mood.
Serving something larger gives well-being a stronger foundation.
Gratitude trains attention toward what is sustaining.
The mind can practice noticing what is already good and real.
Optimism can be learned by disputing permanent explanations.
The story around a setback shapes how long it owns you.
The book is strongest as a strengths deployment manual.
The question is not what makes you happy once, but what makes life fuller repeatedly.
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