The Goal Of All Life Is To

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 About Thinking About Their Thinking, Which The Goddamn Dolphin, As Far As We Know, Can't Do. Therefore They Have Much Greater Ability To Change Themselves Than Any Other Animal Has.

I Thought Foolishly That Freudian Psychoanalysis Was Deeper And More Intensive Than Other, More Directive Forms Of Therapy, So I Was Trained In It And Practiced It. Then I Found That It Intensively Went Into Every Irrelevancy Under The Sun - And That It Didn't Work. People Got Insights Into What Was Bothering Them, But They Hardly Did A Damn Thing To Change.

People And Things Do Not Upset Us. Rather, We Upset Ourselves By Believing That They Can Upset Us.

Religious Creeds Encourage Some Of The Craziest Kinds Of Thoughts, Emotions, And Behaviors And Favor Severe Manifestations Of Neurosis, Borderline Personality States, And Sometimes Even Psychosis.

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.