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Martin Seligman
1942 • American • Psychologist
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Showing 53 quotesPerhaps the single most robust fact across many surveys is that married people are happier than anyone else.— Martin Seligman
If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice afterglow, but it lasts only for hours or days. There is no evidence it changes adult problems.— Martin Seligman
The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness.— Martin Seligman