There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy. — Irving Kirsch
Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions. — Aaron T. Beck
When people change their irrational beliefs to undogmatic flexible preferences, they become less disturbed. — Albert Ellis
Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma. — Norman Doidge
The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful. — Dalai Lama
Believe that you can change and deserve better to take steps towards improving emotional health. — Peter Attia
Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change. — Milton H. Erickson
Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that matter are the things that happen in you. — Eric Butterworth
Don’t let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.
We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing. — Euripides
Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cognitive behavioral therapy in order not to yell at my children. — Ayelet Waldman
The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass. — Epictetus
Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be. — Wayne Dyer
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. — Claude Adrien Helvetius
The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.' — Alfred Korzybski
His own character is the arbiter of every ones fortune. — Publilius Syrus
Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears. — Marcus Aurelius
We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living. — Thomas Szasz
Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand. — Sophocles
I would like to be remembered as one of the individuals who founded, ideologically and practically, cognitive behavior therapy and who pioneered multimodal or integrated therapy. — Albert Ellis
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists. — Jack Kornfield
The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them. — Michel de Montaigne
Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within. — Marcus Aurelius
Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) was one of the very few therapies that was originated partly or largely because I wanted to be brief and efficient. And therefore right from the start I was active and directive. I tried to show people some central masturbatory core to their philosophy and to get them to work at changing it cognitively, emotionally and behaviorally. — Albert Ellis
Our contention is not that medication alone is the answer. We really need to have it in conjunction with cognitive behavioral therapy and with peer support. And that needs to be reimbursed [by health insurers], because it shows huge reductions in overall spending. — Patrick J. Kennedy
Everybody has their reasons. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Man is more powerful than matter. — Benjamin Disraeli
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