Barbara Fredrickson Quotes

#1. Barbara Fredrickson, a researcher at the University of North Carolina and perhaps the world's leading expert on the subject, describes the ten most common positive emotions: "joy, gratitude, serenity, interest, hope, pride, amusement, inspiration, awe, and love.

Shawn Achor

#2. One Must Always Remember That Birth, Old Age, Disease And Death Comes At Any Moment In Regardless Of Whom We Are Or What We Have In Forms Of Material Possession.

Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo

#3. A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.

Ugo Betti

#4. Marriage. That's what he called it, though men like Paul do not marry women. They own them. They control them. They are voracious gluttons who devour every part of a woman, then clean their teeth with the bones.

Karin Slaughter

#5. The boundaries between you and not-you - what lies beyond your skin - relax and become more permeable. While infused with love you see fewer distinctions between you and others. Indeed, your ability to see others - really see them, wholeheartedly - springs open.

Barbara Fredrickson

#6. You know that saying 'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing'? That's so true of positive psychology. Our latest research tells us that the pursuit of happiness is a delicate art. Certain approaches to seeking happiness are now known to backfire, whereas others are effective.

Barbara Fredrickson

#7. Love draws you out of your cocoon of self-absorption to attune to others. Love allows you to really see another person, holistically, with care, concern, and compassion.

Barbara L. Fredrickson

#8. Flourishing goes beyond happiness, or satisfaction with life. True, people who flourish are happy. But that's not the half of it. Beyond feeling good, they're also doing good-adding value to the world.

Barbara Fredrickson

#9. Positivity opens us. The first core truth about positive emotions is that they open our hearts and our minds, making us more receptive and more creative.

Barbara Fredrickson

#10. Positive psychology is both a movement and a science. The movement involves absolutely anyone who is interested in evidence-based approaches to improving well-being, either for themselves or for their community. I invite you to join this movement!

Barbara Fredrickson

#11. Positive people are able to maintain a broader perspective and see the big picture which helps them identify solutions where as negative people maintain a narrower perspective and tend to focus on problems.

Barbara Fredrickson

#12. Scientists have shown that because positive and open mindsets produce exploration and experiential learning, they also come to produce more-accurate mental maps of the world.

Barbara Fredrickson

#13. It turns out that unexplained positivity lasts longer than positivity we analyze until we fully understand it.

Barbara Fredrickson

#14. When we inject people with positivity, their outlook expands. They see the big picture. When we inject them with neutrality or negativity, their peripheral vision shrinks. There is no big picture, no dots to connect.

Barbara Fredrickson

#15. Love requires you to be physically and emotionally present. It also requires that you slow down.

Barbara Fredrickson

#16. The impossible - we are told - cannot be achieved. To overcome the 'impossible,' we need to use our wits and be fearless. We need to break the rules and to circumvent - some would one say to cheat.

Philippe Petit

#17. Look, it's not ever going go stop hurting. That's the reality. But after a while, it'll get ... easier. You'll get used to living with it.

Hannah Harrington

#18. Love is that micro-moment of warmth and connection that you share with another living being

Barbara Fredrickson

#19. Positivity transforms us for the better.

Barbara Fredrickson

#20. And I have the Internet. That sounds weird, but Twitter is a lot like having a large, invisible gang of equally messed-up people who will hide with you in bathrooms and make you laugh under the pillow fort you've built in a lonely hotel room.

Jenny Lawson

#21. The armour of others is too wide, or too strait for us; it falls off us, or it weighs us down.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#22. Positive emotions are not trivial luxuries, but instead might be critical necessities for optimal functioning.

Barbara Fredrickson

#23. If there is a war to be fought, we don't consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.

Philip Pullman

#24. Positivity doesn't just change the contents of your mind ... It widens the span of possibilities that you see.

Barbara Fredrickson

#25. The negative screams at you but the positive only whispers.

Barbara Fredrickson

#26. Flourishing is not a solo endeavor.

Barbara Fredrickson

#27. Taking delight in my family, my time in nature, and in the chance to do work that I find endlessly fascinating and rewarding. My smile grows even bigger when I think about how lucky I am to have such delights be part of my everyday life.

Barbara Fredrickson

#28. The benefits of positive emotions don't stop after a few minutes of good feelings subside. In fact, the biggest benefit that positive emotions provide is an enhanced ability to build skills and develop resources for use later in life.

Barbara Fredrickson

#29. No one can be compared with you and so no one can refute this

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