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

Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.

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.

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.

You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.

Beginning in the 1960s, many studies showed that people who hold what we call irrational beliefs are significantly more disturbed than when they don't hold them, and the more strongly they hold them, the more disturbed they tend to be.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.