Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.

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.

...when he possessed her, they seemed to swoon together at the very borderland of life’s mystery.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

My parents just neglected me, I wasn't abused or anything.

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.

It is much more likely that you will attain liberation if you want liberation for others, than just for yourself.

Dear is my friend--yet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good: My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should.

I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

Everything works if you let it