Your Erroneous Zones: Step-by-Step Advice for Escaping the Trap of Negative Thinking and Taking Control of Your Life

If you are growing, you are alive. If you are not growing then you might as well be dead.

The leaders of the church have misconstrued the teachings of the great religious leaders and attempted to teach conformity by using fear of retribution as a weapon.

The student has been trained to do it for someone else, to please the professor, and to measure up to someone else’s standards. His queries are the end product of a system that demands approval-seeking for survival. He is terrified of thinking for himself. It is just easier and safer to do what someone else expects.

Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you’ve lost them forever.

Feelings are not just emotions that happen to you. Feelings are reactions you choose to have.

Becoming happier and more effective will mean becoming more aware of the choices that are available to you. YOU ARE THE SUM TOTAL OF YOUR CHOICES,

So he covets approval, and learns that gaining the sanction of others is tantamount to being successful and happy.

You get good at loving yourself, and suddenly you’re able to love others, to give to others, and do for others by giving and doing for yourself first.

an approach that relies on responsibility for and commitment to yourself, plus an appetite for living and a desire to be all that you choose to at this moment.