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"The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise."--Proverbs 12:15
"Words are the physicians of a mind diseased."--Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
"The best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it came upon him, he felt most deeply and intensely active and alive."--William James,1842-1910: American psychologist & philosopher
"Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."--Eleanor Roosevelt
"A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things."--Eleanor Roosevelt
"You mainly feel the way you think."--Albert Ellis, voted the second most influential psychologist of all time by the American Psychological Association (APA)
"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, Reason and Emotion in Psychotherapy Revised
"Ellis' most recent writings propose that all emotional disturbance shares a single root: demandingness."--Walen, DiGiuseppe & Dryden, A Practitioner's Guide to Rational Emotive Therapy, 2nd Edition, page 129
"We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming--or damning."--Albert Ellis & Robert A. Harper, A Guide to Rational Living, Third Edition, p. 127. Order A Guide to Rational Living
"You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity."--Albert Ellis, Buddhism and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
"Needing leads to bleeding--to almost all inevitable suffering."--Albert Ellis, Buddhism and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
"Do you feel that because you think it or because you experience it? Do you know the difference? How?"--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them."--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 1533-1592: French essayist
"The depressed man lives in a depressed world."--Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951
"Attitude is everything."--Aphorism
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you handle what happens to you."--Anonymous
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."--Victor E. Frankl, 1905-1997: Austrian psychiatrist, Man's Search for Meaning
"We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living."--Thomas S. Szasz, 1920- : Hungarian-born American psychiatrist
"The unexamined life is not worth living."--Socrates
"The over-examined life is not worth living."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."--William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2
"The fault, Dear Brutus, is not in our stars; but in ourselves, that we are underlings."--William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar
"Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that is gone."--William Shakespeare
"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven."--Ecclesiastes 3:1
"Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me."--Nursery rhyme
"We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."--Thomas Stearns Eliot, 1888-1965: American-born British Writer
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear."--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 1844-1900: German philosopher
"That which does not kill me, makes me stronger."--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 1844-1900: German philosopher
"He who has a 'why' to live for can bear with almost any 'how'."--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 1844-1900: German philosopher
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven."--John Milton, 1608-1674: English poet
"For everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved."--John 3:20
"For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:"--Proverbs 23:7
"Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness."--Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947: British mathematician & philosopher
"Negative thinking is the highest form of intelligence."--Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1895-1986: Indian philosopher, Commentaries on Living, Second Series, p. 71
"What you believe you experience."--J. Krishnamurti, Commentaries on Living, Volume 1, p. 88
"Most people believe they see the world as it is. However, we really see the world as we are."--Anonymous
"One who takes a calm and rational approach toward life."--American Heritage dictionary definition of philosopher
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."--Aphorism
"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, Unity minister
"Unless one dream one's finest dreams in solitude, unless one reach the point of being able to dispense with all human company, all distraction, all traffic with the world--even the companionship of great souls and first-rate minds--unless one be self-sufficient, finding the first and best entertainment within oneself, within the depth of one's own person, one ought to sweep one's claims to greatness into one's pocket there accumulated, one ought to steal away out of the sacred presence of a nature to which one does not belong."--Johann Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832: German writer, poet & scientist
"Happy is the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers."--Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: 'I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.'"--Groucho Marx [Julius Henry], United States comedian
"There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man."—Mark 7:15
"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."--Philippians 4:8
"Ye shall know them by their fruits."--Matthew 7:16
"Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them."--Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910: Russian writer & philosopher
"My one fear is that I will not be worthy of my sufferings."--Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski, 1821-1881: Russian writer
"Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God."--I John 4:1
"Because it should be--it does not follow that it must be."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Disputing is making aversive."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Disputing is making allergic."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Instead of trying and failing choose either to experiment or practice."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Happiness is a state of mind."--Aphorism
"An angry man never wants for woe."--Aphorism
"When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation--some fact of my life--unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment."--Alcoholics Anonymous, Third Edition of the Big Book, page 449
"But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also."--Matthew 5:39
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; taking as He did, this world as it is, not as I would have it. Trusting that He will make all things right IF I surrender to His will; that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him, forever in the next."--Reinhold Neibuhr, 1926
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it: and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 121-180: Roman philosopher & emperor
"Our life is what our thoughts make it."--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, Book IV
"Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within."--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, Book IV
"Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears."--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, Book IV
"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him."--Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1918 -: Soviet writer & dissident
"What you don't know can't hurt you."--Aphorism
"Out of sight out of mind."--Aphorism
"Time heals all wounds."--Aphorism
"The glass is half empty or half full depending on your attitude."--Aphorism
"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."--Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865: American president
"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them."--Epictetus, 55?-135?: Greek Stoic philosopher
"Life is what you make it."--Aphorism
"Where there is a will there is a way."--Aphorism
"Choose to choose."--Existential philosophy
"Happiness is a choice."--Aphorism
"Change your thoughts and you change your world."--Norman Vincent Peale
"Think you can, think you can't; either way, you'll be right."--Henry Ford
"The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'"--Alfred Korzybski, 1879-1950: Polish-born American philosopher, Science and Sanity, page 10 (the italics are Korzybski's)
"The map is not the territory."--Alfred Korzybski
"The thought is not the thing."--Alfred Korzybski
"Identity is invariably false to facts."--Alfred Korzybski
"Whatever you say something is--it is not."--Alfred Korzybski
"The thought is not the thing."--J. Krishnamurti
"The description is not the described."--J. Krishnamurti
"The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another."--J. Krishnamurti
"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."--Benjamin Disraeli
"Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act."--Claude Helvetius
"Each of us does, in effect, strike a series of 'deals,' or compromises, between the wants and longings of the inner self, and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations."--Maggie Scarf
"You can't step into the same river twice."--Heraclitus
"Character is destiny."--Heraclitus
"His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune."--Publius Syrus, 42 B.C.
"The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass."--Epictetus, Discourses
"What has always made a hell on earth is that man has tried to make it his heaven."--Friedrich Holderlin
"Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon."--Dag Hammarskjold
"Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change."--Milton Erickson
"Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same."--Francesca Reigle
"Mind over matter only mind doesn't matter. Mind over matter only mind is matter. Mind over matter only mind is the matter."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Cognitive psychotherapy boils down to learning the habit of looking for and uprooting self-disturbing thinking whenever you notice you are disturbed."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Cognitive psychotherapy can be understood as forcing yourself to face the negative consequences of some negative thinking until you make such negative thinking not an option."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"The higher passions should rule reason and the lower passions should be ruled by reason."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"There is only one thing in the world that can be reduced to an opinion--an opinion--not you, them, things, or life."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"If you act stupid you will no more become stupid than if you bark like a dog you will become a dog."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"One man's pleasure is another man's poison."--Aphorism
"It all depends on how you look at it."--Aphorism
"Take it easy."--Aphorism
"Unminded, unmoaned."--Aphorism
"Unseen, unrued."--Aphorism
"What you don't know can't hurt you."--Aphorism
"The loss that is unknown is no loss at all."--Aphorism
"Bite the bullet."--Aphorism
"Things are not what they seem." "Things are never what they look like." "Things are not as they appear." "Things are never what they first appear to be."--Aphorism stated in many forms and styles
"Things never turn out the way you think they will."--Aphorism
"Trouble brings experience and experience wisdom."--Aphorism
"You do not have to dig up a tree's roots in order to help it."--Aphorism
"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."--Confucius
"If you really want to be happy, nobody can stop you!"--Sister Mary Tricky
"Practice is everything."--Periander, in Lives of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
"We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing."--Euripides, fragment
"Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand."--Sophocles, Phaedra
"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."--Sophocles
"Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours."--Epictetus, Enchiridion
"In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength."--Aristotle, Politics
"Turn your mind away from things which are not permanent."--Majjhima Nikaya
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