Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.

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.

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.

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

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.