The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range.

Martin Seligman
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  1. When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always. - Mahatma Gandhi

  2. They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now - Unknown

  3. Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. - Clive Barker

  4. Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. - Pablo Neruda

  5. Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. - Unknown

More Quotes By Martin Seligman
  1. The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.

  2. It's my belief that, since the end of the Second World War, psychology has moved too far away from its original roots, which were to make the lives of all people more fulfilling and productive, and too much toward the important, but not all-important, area...

  3. Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.

  4. Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful.

  5. If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more.

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