We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the…

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.

— Marcus Aurelius

The individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for.

— Albert Ellis

Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that matter are the things that happen in you.

— Eric Butterworth

The depressed man lives in a depressed world.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“CBT is a much publicised and debated psychotherapeutic intervention for ME/CFS….The premise that cognitive therapy (eg. changing ‘illness beliefs’) and graded activity can ‘reverse’…

— Anthony Komaroff

Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.

— Jack Kornfield

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

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 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

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

— Alfred Korzybski

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

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind.

— Gautama Buddha