Cognitive Therapy Quotes

#1. I have been amazed by the interest in cognitive behavioral therapy that has developed since 'Feeling Good' was first published in 1980. At that time, very few people had heard of cognitive therapy.

David D. Burns

#2. Acceptance and commitment therapy, a variant on cognitive therapy, attempts to teach people to accept rather than change their emotions and make decisions within the context of what they value, as opposed to letting negative feelings control their behavior.

Joseph E. Ledoux

#3. Cognitive therapy is a fast-acting technology of mood modification that you can learn to apply on your own. It can help you eliminate the symptoms and experience personal growth so you can minimize future upsets and cope with depression more effectively in the future.

David D. Burns

#4. 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

#5. I wondered if there was a way to teach people how to use their imaginations in prayer and worship. So I began reading books on cognitive therapy and neuroscience and started studying the devotional traditions of the church.

Gregory A. Boyd

#6. Although no one treatment will ever be a panacea, research studies indicate that cognitive therapy can be helpful for a variety of disorders in addition to depression.

David D. Burns

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

Gautama Buddha

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#9. The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.

Michel De Montaigne

#10. You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting.

Albert Ellis

#11. 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

#12. The depressed man lives in a depressed world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#13. I want my brain to slide back into the slot it was meant to be in, rest there the way it did before the fall of last year, back when I was young, witty, and my teachers said I had incredible promise.

Ned Vizzini

#14. 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

#15. We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.

Thomas Szasz

#16. You will either do so convincingly and well, or you won't. But at least you will be plugged in to the moment in the process. Not flitting just outside of it, trying to keep everything together like one of those little heel-snapping Sheltie dogs.

Augusten Burroughs

#17. The key to valuing something is to lose it and then realize how rare it was - after which you pray like mad to regain what you foolishly lost. The value of an item often depends upon how hard it is to attain.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#18. Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.

Milton H. Erickson

#19. Someone's got to do some more research, but I would really like to know: when a CBT therapist really gets distressed, who does he go see?

Irvin D. Yalom

#20. Everybody has their reasons.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#21. I've had a lot of cognitive behavioural therapy, and am having a family now.

Trisha Goddard

#22. The point about positive thinking, and later cognitive behavioural therapy, was that you could choose how you thought about life, and that how you thought about it changed not only your interpretation of what happened, but also the actual course of events.

Jenny Alexander

#23. I want to create amazing art and content that inspires people to want to be the best versions of themselves everyday, and never let anyone (even themselves) hold them back.

Rachele Brooke Smith

#24. Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.

Samuel Mockbee

#25. The less you think you know, the more will be known. It's amazing what you can know when you let go of being the knower.

Art Hochberg

#26. Our thoughts have prepared for us the
happiness or unhappiness we experience.

Hazrat Inayat Khan