The goal...is not to change your desires and wishes but to persuade you to stop demanding that you absolutely must have what you wish-from yourself, from others, and from the world. You can by all means keep your wishes, preferences, and desires, but unless you prefer to remain needlessly anxious, not your grandiose demands.

Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.

I hope to die in the saddle seat.

You mainly feel the way you think.

Reality is not so much what happens to us; rather, it is how we think about those events that create the reality we experience. In a very real sense, this means that we each create the reality in which we live.

Humans can always accept themselves unconditionally.

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