Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Quotes

• Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

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• Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that matter are the things that happen in you.

  Eric Butterworth

  May, Matter, Cognitive Therapy

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• 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.

  Irving Kirsch

  Thinking, People, Technique

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• Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Truth, Intelligent, Greatness

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• You mainly feel the way you think.

  Albert Ellis

  Thinking, Way, Feels

  Albert Ellis, Jack Gordon, Michael Neenan, Stephen Palmer (2001). “Stress Counselling: A Rational Emotive Behaviour Approach”, p.182, SAGE

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• Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind.

  Gautama Buddha

  Thinking, Mind, Cognitive Therapy

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• Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.

  Sophocles

  Strength, Hands

  "Phædra". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 854,

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• All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Reality, Political

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• 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.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Different, Gains, Easier

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• We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.

  Euripides

  Missing, Brain, Mind

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• Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Way, Patient, Cognitive Therapy

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• The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Reality, Literature, Patterns

  Gabriel García Márquez's Nobel Prize acceptance speech on the role of a writer, www.farnamstreetblog.com. 1982.

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• The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Evil, Opinion, Cognitive Therapy

  Michel de Montaigne (1811). “The Essays of Michael de Montaigne”, p.308

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• Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Eye, Tragedy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3240, Delphi Classics

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• Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Passion, Men, Principles

  Claude Adrien Helvétius (1777). “A Treatise on Man, His Intellectual Faculties and His Education: A Posthumous Work of M. Helvetius. Translated from the French, with Additional Notes, by W. Hooper, ...”, p.43

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• Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.377, Delphi Classics

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• If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

  Sophocles

  Mind, Body, Coping

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• Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.

  Jack Kornfield

  Buddhist, Firsts, Therapists

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• He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Done, Ruins, Neglect

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.69, Xist Publishing

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• 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.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Dope, Feelings, Belief

  Quoted in "The Future of Counselling and Psychotherapy" by Stephen Palmer and Ved P. Varma, Chapter 6, p. 84, 1997.

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• Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Facts, Cognitive Therapy, Interpretation

  "The Will to Power". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, aphorism 552, 1888.

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• The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.

  Epictetus

  Sorrow, Wish, Doe

  Epictetus (1926). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

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• All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

  Walter Benjamin

  Intelligence, Form, Interpretation

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  Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Nursing, Nurse, Important

  "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations". Book by James Beasley Simpson, 1988.

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• 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.

  Maggie Scarf

  Self, Doe, Want

  Maggie Scarf (1980). “Unfinished business: pressure points in the lives of women”, Doubleday Books

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