You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting.

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

Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.

The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations.

The individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for.

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

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.