Cognitive behavioral therapy Quote by Epictetus Download Open image “The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.” — Epictetus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cognitive behavioral therapy Doe Grief Sorrow Therapy Wish
Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sorrow is God's plowshare that turns up and subsoils the depths of the soul, that it may yield richer harvests. If we had never… — Lettie Cowman Copy Share Image
Sorrow comes with so many defense mechanisms. You have your shock, your denial, your getting wasted, your cracking jokes, and your religion. You also… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning. — Raymond Radiguet Copy Share Image
Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The lessons we learn in sadness and from loss are those that abide. Sorrow clarifies the mind, steadies it, and forces it to weigh… — Theodore T. Munger Copy Share Image
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“We are at the mercy of whoever wields authority over the things we either desire or detest. If you would be free, then, do… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.” — Epictetus Copy Share Image
What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.' — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change. — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image