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- People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. They always have the power to think, and to think about their thinking, and to…
- If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions, thoughts, evaluations, and…
- By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.
- Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them.
- And just as two wrongs don't make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.
- Even when people act nastily to you, don't condemn them or retaliate.
- The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your…
- I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.
- People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
- I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love…
- Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it…
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- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster