David D. Burns Quotes

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• Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.
• Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
• Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.
• When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the…
• Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.
• That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not…
• Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in…
• You feel the way you do right now because of the thoughts you are thinking at this moment.
• It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself a mental credit…
• After all, this is how you learned how to walk. You didn't just jump up from your crib one day and waltz gracefully across the…
• Reaching for the stars, perfectionists may end up clutching air. They suffer from mood disorders, troubled relationships, and stress. They may even achieve less than…
• Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and…
• Powerful new drug-free treatments have been developed for depression and for every conceivable type of anxiety, such as chronic worrying, shyness, public speaking anxiety, test…
• When you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel.
• The stereotype of psychotherapy portrayed in popular books and movies is lying on the couch and saying whatever comes into your mind, while a kindly…
• Depression is an illness and not a necessary part of healthy living.
• Cognitive therapy is a fast-acting technology of mood modification that you can learn to apply on your own. It can help you eliminate the symptoms…
• Cognitive therapy is based on the idea that when you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel and behave. In…
• Although no one treatment will ever be a panacea, research studies indicate that cognitive therapy can be helpful for a variety of disorders in addition…
• Every time you feel depressed about something, try to identify a corresponding negative thought you had just prior to and during the depression. Because these…

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