The interior life is often stupid.
You have only to exist as you do and to live your life as best you can.
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 president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.
When I started to get disillusioned with psychoanalysis I reread philosophy and was reminded of the constructivist notion that Epictetus had proposed 2,000 years ago: "People are disturbed not by events that happen to them, but by their view of them. " I could see how that applied to many of my clients.
There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.
You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting.
The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.
Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.
It’s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I’m a woman Phenomenally.