HISTORICAL FIGURES
"No matter where you go, there you are." - Confucius
"When we see men of a contrary character, we must turn inward and
examine ourselves." - Confucius
"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of
them." - Epictetus (1st century AD)
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor
Roosevelt
"We cannot change the past. We cannot change the fact that people
act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The
only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our
attitude." - Charles R. Swindoll
"One must differentiate between one's thoughts and one's emotions with
full clarity and precision...No discussion, cooperation, agreement, or
understanding is possible among men who substitute emotion for proof." -
Ayn Rand
"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purposed recognized
by yourself as a mighty one...the being the force of Nature instead of a
feverish clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will
not devote itself to making you happy." - George Bernard Shaw
"Not all those who wander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien
THERAPISTS
Albert Ellis, Ph.D., founder of Rational Emotive
Behavioral Therapy
"There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must
treat me well. And the world must be easy." - Albert Ellis,
Ph.D.
"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." - Albert Ellis, Ph.D.
Viktor Frankl, MD, founder of Logotherapy
"Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last
of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of
circumstances, to choose one's own way." - Viktor E. Frankl, MD
Carl Jung, MD, psychoanalyst
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an
understanding of ourselves." - C.G. Jung, MD
Carl Rogers, Ph.D.
"In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I
treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the
question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person
may use for his own personal growth?" - Carl Rogers, Ph.D.
"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I
can change." - Carl Rogers, Ph.D.
"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a
direction, not a destination." - Carl Rogers, Ph.D.
"In a person who is open to experience, each stimulus is freely relayed
through the nervous system, without being distorted by an process of
defensiveness." - Carl Rogers, Ph.D.
Abraham Maslow, Ph.D., creator of Maslow's Hierarchy
of Needs
"All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume
in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn
baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards
growth..." - Abraham Maslow, Ph.D.
"He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail." -
Abraham Maslow, Ph.D.
"If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being,
then I warn you that you will be unhappy all the days of your life." -
Abraham Maslow, Ph.D.
"The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental
wellness." - Abraham Maslow, Ph.D.
"We may define therapy as a search for value." - Abraham Maslow,
Ph.D.
"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of
himself." - Abraham Maslow, Ph.D.
William Glasser, M.D., founder of Choice Theory
"Caring for but not trying to own may be a further way to define
friendship." - William Glasser, M.D.
"Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there were no sex
between you." - William Glasser, M.D.
"If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it
right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place." -
William Glasser, M.D.
"It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us,
to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice."
- William Glasser, M.D.
"We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we
will be in control of our lives." - William Glasser, M.D.
"We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have bloody our heads
against it unless we choose to." - William Glasser, M.D.
"When we label anyone 'bad,' we will have more trouble dealing with him
than if we could have settled for a lesser label." - William Glasser,
M.D.
Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., founder of Imago
Relationship Therapy
"Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends."
- Harville Hendrix, Ph.D.
