Martin Seligman, 1942 - Positive Psychology

What makes people happy?

Three Types of Happiness

Three Types of Happiness

The Pleasant Life

Three Types of Happiness

The Pleasant Life The Engaged Life

Three Types of Happiness

The Pleasant Life The Engaged Life The Meaningful Life

What makes people happy?

What makes people happy?

The Pleasant Life The Engaged Life The Meaningful Life

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

- Dale Carnegie

An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with the material senses. O son of Kunti, such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.- Bhagavad-gita 5.22

By following their qualities of work, a person can become perfect. Now hear from me how this is done.

By following their qualities of work, a person can become perfect. Now hear from me how this is done.By worship of the Lord, who is the source of all beings and who is all-pervading, a person can attain perfection through performing their own work.- Bhagavad-gita 18.45-46