Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them..

Stop shoulding on yourself.

If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the in….

Strong feelings are fine; it's the overreactions that mess us up..

Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifyin….

If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - ….

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the pr….

People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us..

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy..

The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action..

You mainly feel the way you think..

You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the a….

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

It is only in your mind that you have to excel, at anything or everything. Of course, it would be very nice to excel at most things. Indeed, we recom….

Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny..

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. They always have the power to think, and to think about their thinking, and to think….

The goal...is not to change your desires and wishes but to persuade you to stop demanding that you absolutely must have what you wish-from yourself, ….

Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next….

Reality is not so much what happens to us; rather, it is how we think about those events that create the reality we experience. In a very real sense,….

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own..

In fact most of what we call anxiety is overconcern about what someone thinks of you..