Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

When you do the thing you fear, the thing loses its power to scare.

External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances.

Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.

The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than conforming to rigid standards set by social custom.

Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.