The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.

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.

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.

You have only to exist as you do and to live your life as best you can.

Most things worth having require some sacrifice, usually more than you expect.

Stop shoulding on yourself