Positive psychology is not a self-help movement. It is a science, with its roots in academia and its rigor sharpened by research.

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"By activating an expansive, tolerant, and creative mindset, positive feelings maximize the social, intellectual, and physical benefits that will accrue."

- Martin Seligman

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"It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success."

- Martin Seligman

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"When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity."

- Martin Seligman

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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

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"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."

- John Graham

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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

Education

"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

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"I must study lots of things or I won’t become a great person."

- Kotomi Ichinose

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