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

I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.

We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. They always have the power to think, and to think about their thinking, and to think about thinking about their thinking, which the goddamn dolphin, as far as we know, can't do. Therefore they have much greater ability to change themselves than any other animal has.

The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.

Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions.

So I'd better stop my whining and help myself cope better with even the worst Adversities.