The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

You mainly feel the way you think.

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.

If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.

Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible.

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.