If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions, thoughts, evaluations, and internalized sentences, they would find it quite possible to work calmly and concertedly at changing them.

The world consists mainly of love slobs who need other people's approval. Most people don't live their own lives very well.

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.

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

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

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

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.