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.

The easy way out is often just that-the 'easy' way out of the most rewarding lifestyle.

Humans can always accept themselves unconditionally.

Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.

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.

I started to call myself a "rational therapist" in January 1955; later I used the term "rational emotive." Now I call myself a "rational emotive behavior therapist." But from the start, I always included philosophic techniques as well as experiential, emotional and behavioral techniques.

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