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

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

Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it teaches people unconditional self-acceptance.

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.

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

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

In a sense, the religious person must have no real views of his own and it is presumptuous of him, in fact, to have any. In regard to sex-love affairs, to marriage and family relations, to business, to politics, and to virtually everything else that is important in his life, he must try to discover what his god and his clergy would like him to do; and he must primarily do their bidding.