Strong Feelings Are Fine; It's The Overreactions

Being Assertive Does Not Mean Attacking Or Ignoring Others Feelings. It Means That You Are Willing To Hold Up For Yourself Fairly-without Attacking Others.

Freudian Therapists Do A Lot Of Listening And Very Little Persuading, And That Was One Of The Reasons I Eventually Gave Up Being An Analyst. You Had To Be Too Passive And Not Speak Up, And You Couldn't Give Homework To Clients. While I Was Still An Analyst, I Wrote Several Articles Criticizing Psychoanalysis, But The Analysts Weren't Listening To My Objections. So I Finally Quit Psychoanalysis After Practicing It For Six Years.

The Best Years Of Your Life Are The Ones In Which You Decide Your Problems Are Your Own.

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, And I Hope That Rebt Teaches Them How To Do It.

You Have Only To Exist As You Do And To Live Your Life As Best You Can.