Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

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 internalized sentences, they would find it quite possible to work calmly and concertedly at changing them.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.

Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.

Strong feelings are fine; it's the overreactions that mess us up.