The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are able to love, to share, to go into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

积极心理学不仅仅是感觉良好，而是关于美好的生活。

不可否认，这个时代确有其独特的优势。无聊似乎已被彻底消灭，我们永远有做不完的事——但这是否也意味着，我们的生活已沦为一场永不停歇的分心之旅？

——1941年与美国外交官阿弗雷尔·哈里曼（Averell Harriman）的谈话

She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one.

怀疑是受过教育的头脑的标志，甚至是姿态。