Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.
Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that matter are the things that happen in you.
There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
You mainly feel the way you think.
Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind.
Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.
We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.
Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.
The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.
Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
Each of us does, in effect, strike a series of deals or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self, and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations.
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