Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Well-being cannot exist just in your own head; well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment.

The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and are their own fault.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living.

The first thing we can say of life is that it is a nexus.

-- Wilhelm Dilthey

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

-- Hannah Arendt

The meaning of a word is its use in the language.

-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

-- Elon Musk

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

-- Richard Branson

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start.

-- Linus Pauling