We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

When people change their irrational beliefs to undogmatic flexible preferences, they become less disturbed.

Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions.

Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis.

Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.

Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.

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.