Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.

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 the world must be easy.

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 to upset yourself emotionally - about anything. Yes, anything.

By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.

Stop shoulding on yourself

Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.

The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.

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.

Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.

As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Decision making is an art only until the person understands the science.

Sometimes I'm happy when he's gone, but I'm always happy when he returns. -Clare

All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background.

Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.