Optimism Quotes
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
-Arthur Rubinstein
We either make ourselves happy or
miserable. The amount of work is
the same.
-Carlos Castaneda
Don’t worry. Be happy.
-Meher Baba
The talent for being happy is
appreciating and liking what you
have, instead of what you don’t
have.
LEARNED OPTIMISM
-Woody Allen
Happiness depends upon
ourselves.
-Aristotle
Optimism is the father that leads to
achievement.
-Helen Keller
By Marla O’Driscoll and Qian
Wilcox
Northern Arizona University
Learned Optimism Assignment
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My friends, love is better than
anger. Hope is better than fear.
Optimism is better than despair.
So let us be loving, hopeful and
optimistic. And we’ll change
the world.
Jack Layton
OPTIMISM vs PESSIMISM
Learned Optimism
Martin E. P. Seligman, PhD
Martin E. P. Seligman, PhD is a
professor of psychology at the
University of Pennsylvania and a past
president of the American
Psychological Association. He is
currently the director of the Positive
Psychology Center at the University of
Pennsylvania, he has written many
books and he is a leading motivational
expert and authority on learned
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strengths and talents and re-craft your
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life to use them as much as you can in
Optimism is a feeling or belief that
helplessness. According to Dr.
good things will happen in the future:
Seligman his book Learned Optimism
a feeling or belief that what you hope
is the foundation of thinking positive.
for will happen.
He believes a person can learn and
Pessimism is a feeling or belief that
apply the skills needed to set forth in
bad things will happen in the future: a
motion a happier, positive side of life
feeling or belief that what you hope for
including three forms of ‘happiness’:
will not happen.
(1) The Pleasant Life, in which you
anyone can learn. Its fun, it’s easy and
aim to have as much positive emotion
it’s been known to make people’s lives
as possible and learn the skills to
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amplify positive emotion; (2) The
Engage Life, you identify your highest
work, love, friendship, parenting and
leisure; and (3) Meaningful Life, you
use your highest strengths and talents
to belong to and serve something you
believe is larger than the self.
Learned Optimism is a skill that
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