His own character is the arbiter of every ones fortune.

Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Historically in the literature CBT [Cognitive Behavioral Therapy] was inappropriately touted as a cure for patients with ME/CFS if they changed their “belief system”.…

— Alison C. Bested

You mainly feel the way you think.

— Albert Ellis

The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.

— Michel de Montaigne

Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.

— Milton H. Erickson

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

— Henry David Thoreau

Man is more powerful than matter.

— Benjamin Disraeli

We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.

— Euripides

We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.

— Thomas Szasz

The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'

— Alfred Korzybski

Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.

— Sophocles

Our contention is not that medication alone is the answer. We really need to have it in conjunction with cognitive behavioral therapy and with…

— Patrick J. Kennedy

Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable.…

— Ayelet Waldman

He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called…

— Irving Kirsch