Cognitive Therapy Quotes

• Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions.

  Aaron T. Beck

  Stress, Self, Belief

  "Cognitive Therapy of Depression". Book by Aaron T. Beck, 1978.

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• 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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• 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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• There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [259]

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• Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Laughter, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Bob Blaisdell (2011). “Thoreau: A Book of Quotations”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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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 Behavioral Therapy

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

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Thinking, Mind, Persons

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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 Behavioral Therapy

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• Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.

  Jack Kornfield

  Buddhist, Firsts, Therapists

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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 Behavioral Therapy

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• Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Soul, Fancy, Arise

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• The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'

  Alfred Korzybski

  Identity, Negative, Fundamentals

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.10, Institute of GS

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.

  Thomas Szasz

  Life Is, Should, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1989). “Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry: An Inquiry Into the Social Uses of Mental Health Practices”, p.255, Syracuse University Press

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Facts, Interpretation, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

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

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• Man is more powerful than matter.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Powerful, Men, Matter

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

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• Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cognitive behavioral therapy in order not to yell at my children.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Order, Bipolar

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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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