Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.

Humans can always accept themselves unconditionally.

Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency. Had I not been a therapist, I would have been an efficiency expert.

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.

If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - about anything. Yes, anything.

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.