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Again..the opinions expressed are not necessarily that of this web author :-) but they do make ya think Beliefs Aren't Etched in Stone... Unless Your Brain is Made of Rock - Patrick Dedication Beats Medication - RC Rehab is for Quitters - unknown SMART Putting the FUN back in DysFUNctional - unknown Opportunity is a Long Time - RC What is REBT? REBT is a practical, action-oriented approach to coping with problems and enhancing personal growth. REBT places a good deal of its focus on the present: on currently-held attitudes, painful emotions and maladaptive behaviors that can sabotage a fuller experience of life. REBT also provides people with an individualized set of proven techniques for helping them to solve problems. REBT practitioners work closely with people, seeking to help uncover their individual set of beliefs (attitudes, expectations and personal rules) that frequently lead to emotional distress. REBT then provides a variety of methods to help people reformulate their dysfunctional beliefs into more sensible, realistic and helpful ones by employing the powerful REBT technique called "disputing." Ultimately, REBT helps people to develop a philosophy and approach to living that can increase their effectiveness and happiness at work, in living successfully with others, in parenting and educational settings, in making our community and environment healthier, and in enhancing their own health and personal welfare. - Albert Ellis Institute My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute. —Ayn Rand, Appendix to Atlas Shrugged We need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure - Oliver Wendal Holmes, Jr. I believe that when we have truly adequate descriptions of brain and mind, dualism and all of its dilemma will disappear - J.A. Hobson on man --No other animal admires another animal - Blaise Pascal Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness - John Sterling To those seaching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction -- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope. - Thomas Alva Edison Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is. I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do? - Epicurus If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. - Albert Einstein It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him. -- Oscar Wilde. The Soul of Man Under Socialism, in Fortnightly Review (1891; 1895) If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things - Descartes I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use - Galileo Galilei 'Nothing can bring you peace but yourself' Ralph Waldo Emerson 'We cannot solve problems with the same thinking we had when we created the problems.' Albert Einstein The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. --Friedrich Neitzsche I hate quotations. Ralph Waldo Emerson "Do or Not Do. There is no Try." -Yoda, from "Star Wars" "Half of getting what you want is knowing what you have to give
up to getit." Everything is what it is because it got that way. (D'Arcy Thompson 1917) {{Ax3.14(6/a) + ( Then a Miracle Occurs ) = Axa*1*10}} One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead...to
produce future. We speak not only to tell others what we think, but to tell ourselves
what we think. The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his
own skill. He loves to do what he does well and, having done it well,
he loves to do it better. Whatever we may want to say,we probably won't say exactly that. The human understanding, once it has adopted an opinion...draws all
things
"If we knew we were on the right road, having to leave it would
mean We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." Aristotle,
Greek philosopher People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." Dale Carnegie,
American Writer Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." Thomas Edison,
inventor and businessman Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still." Chinese proverb
A FEW SCARY QUOTES If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure. -- Vice President Dan Quayle, to the Phoenix Republican Forum, 3/23/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92) Also reported by Reuters, 5/2/90 It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. -- Vice President Dan Quayle In the past we have tried too much to prevent the making of mistakes. -- quoted in The Nation, November 9, 1992 The Civil War was the best war we've ever had because when you're fighting with yourself, you're always going to win. -- Speaking to the American Legion (source unknown) A FEW HUMOROUS QUOTES Have you ever noticed that anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? --George Carlin You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today, and we don't know where the hell she is. --Ellen DeGeneris I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. --Rita Rudner I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. --Carol Leifer The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. --Jackie Gleason I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets. --Dave Edison Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. --Oscar Wilde If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base. --Dave Barry Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress ... But I repeat myself. --Mark Twain Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait. --A. Whitney Brown Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches. --Jim Carrey I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else. --Lily Tomlin Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem. --Jerry Seinfeld Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fishburger and I realize, Oh my God, I could be eating a slow learner. --Lynda Montgomery What do people mean when they say the computer went down on me? --Marilyn Pittman Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic? --Lily Tomlin When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family? --Robin Williams SEEN on T-SHIRTS I Think, Therefore I am Dangerous I haven't been the same since that house fell on my sister Catnip...I can Give it up Anytime Speak Your Mind Even if Your Voice Shakes I believe in Life before death |
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