[O]ne of the greatest difficulties encountered in bringing about favorable change is this almost inescapable illusion that there is a perduring, unique, simple existent self, [which is] in some strange fashion, the patient's, or the subject person's, private property.

As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.

If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.

[O]ne of the greatest difficulties encountered in bringing about favorable change is this almost inescapable illusion that there is a perduring, unique, simple existent self, [which is] in some strange fashion, the patient's, or the subject person's, private property.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.