Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.
If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally – about anything. Yes, anything.
Stop shoulding on yourself.
Even injustice has it’s good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.
The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.
If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one’s feelings by controlling one’s thoughts – or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.
We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming – or damning.
By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.
You mainly feel the way you think.
Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they’re alive and human.
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.
Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it’s conditional.
People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
You largely constructed your depression. It wasn’t given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
Worrying about dying will hardly help you live.
You have only to exist as you do and to live your life as best you can.
You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.
Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.
The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.
To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.