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What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning.

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The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness.

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I believe it is within our capacity that by the year 2051 that 51 percent of the human population will be flourishing. That is my charge.

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Reaching beyond where you are is really important.

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I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness.

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Rather than giving people an inflated view of themselves, we need to give them concrete reasons to feel good about themselves.

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Positive psychology is not remotely intended to replace therapy or pharmacology. So when depressed, anxious or in panic or post-traumatic stress disorder, I am all for therapies that will work. Positive psychology is another arrow in the quiver of public policy and psychology through which we can raise wellbeing above zero.

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Sexual performance problems, such as impotence and frigidity, are 70 to 90 percent changeable. But a homosexual who wants to be a heterosexual - that's close to unchangeable. And a transsexual - say a man who believes he's really a woman in a man's body - is completely unchangeable; you'd have to change the body to conform to the psyche.

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I don't mind being wrong, and I don't mind changing my mind.

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The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and meant a lot of different things to different people, and also because it's subjective.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: August 12th, 1942

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