Neurosis Is Just A High-class Word For

Most Things Worth Having Require Some Sacrifice, Usually More Than You Expect.

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.

I Regret That I've Been So Busy With Clinical Work That I Haven't Been Able To Spend Much Time On Experiments And Outcome Studies.

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.

Worrying About Dying Will Hardly Help You Live.