Automatic Thoughts Quotes

#1. First, you learn to recognize the automatic thoughts flitting through your consciousness at the times you feel worst.

Martin E.P. Seligman

#2. Second, you learn to dispute the automatic thoughts by marshaling contrary evidence.

Martin E.P. Seligman

#3. Third, you learn to make different explanations, called reattributions, and use them to dispute your automatic thoughts.

Martin E.P. Seligman

#4. When you're anxious, don't immediately trust your automatic thoughts because oftentimes these thoughts are irrational. Thoughts are not facts. They're just thoughts and sometimes don't need to be given so much importance.

John Tsilimparis

#5. Somewhere the hurting must stop,

Terry Fox

#6. You say that this society will come to an end, because societies always have done so.
I wonder whether they have ended because they were not really societies at all.

Idries Shah

#7. Her passions were narrow but deep.

Toni Morrison

#8. Disease Carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob and a good political slogan for the epidemic to be spread once again, with a burst of automatic weapons or a mushroom cloud.

Romain Gary

#9. I saw my husband in his cell for ten minutes. During the interview the cell was packed with officers and a sergeant, who kept a watch in his hand and closed the interview by saying, 'Your ten minutes is now up.'

Grace Gifford

#10. I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.

Gabby Douglas

#11. Being Manny Pacquiao's wife is not easy. It's fun for me and my guys but it's very difficult for her.

Manny Pacquiao

#12. And Futh, looking at the lighthouse, wondered how this could happen--how there could be this constant warning of danger, the taking of all these precautions, and yet still there was all this wreckage.

Alison Moore

#13. Blessed be all metrical rules that forbid automatic responses, force us to have second thoughts, free us from the fetters of Self.

W. H. Auden

#14. I'm the guy who gets uncomfortable. That's why I was able to write 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin' and 'Knocked Up.' I believe in those guys.

Judd Apatow

#15. Memory is the resurrection. The dead move among us the living in our memory and that is the resurrection.

Joy Williams

#16. God never demands anything that He does not provide for. Whatever God commands us to do, He equips us to do.

Myles Munroe