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.
- Albert Ellis
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If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being... You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors.... Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and... The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created ‘dangers’ that exist almost... Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of... To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.
Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept... The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.... 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... Reality is not so much what happens to us; rather, it is how we think about those events... You mainly feel the way you think.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.
If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible... By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your...
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