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"People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change."
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"It is so hard to leave-until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."
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"Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!"
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Personal Development
"But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore."
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Personal Development
"America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving."
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Personal Development
"Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing."
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Personal Development
"A personality alters itself through a series of self-referential experiences. We are not the same as the day before. Much as a person can never set foot in exactly the same river on any given day, we are different each day. Yesterday made us, but the past cannot contain nor restrain us. We can never mentally scroll backward and be who we used to be. We must move forward in the stream of life until the day that our life force dries up and we return to dust."
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"We fear change because it insists we discard long held structures that no longer function suitably."
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Personal Development
"What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain."
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"It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes."
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Personal Development
"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."
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"I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame."
Time
"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."
Life
"People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change."
Change
"Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world."
Trust
"People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection."
Time
"By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed."
People
"I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression."
Love
"I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist."
Behavior
"Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse."
Abuse
"Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional."
Man
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