Opposites Quotes by Martin Seligman

Martin Seligman

One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn’t be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy – just not in the same moment that you’re sad.

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Opposites

Suffering

Martin Seligman

The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and are their own fault. The optimists, who are confronted with the same hard knocks of this world, think about misfortune in the opposite way. They tend to believe that defeat is just a temporary setback or a challenge, that its causes are just confined to this one case.

Believe

Opposites

Thinking

Martin Seligman

The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It’s internal rather than external.

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Optimistic

Style

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Opposites Quotes by Martin Seligman

One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn’t be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy – just not in the same moment that you’re sad.

The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It’s internal rather than external.

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