Life Quotes

The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.

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"Life is lived in small moments, not grand gestures."
Steven Hayes
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"Delay of gratification is the cornerstone of maturity."
Walter Mischel
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"We become what we think about most."
Walter Mischel
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"We are architects of our own destiny."
Walter Mischel
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"The measure of a life is not its length but its depth."
Walter Mischel
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"Every person is capable of rewriting their story."
Walter Mischel
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"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."
Robert McCrae
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"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. But the path between them is where we do our work."
Marsha Linehan
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"When you change the way you relate to your thoughts, you change your life."
Marsha Linehan
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"You cannot think your way out of an emotion. You must move through it."
Marsha Linehan
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"Therapy is not about making you happy. It is about making your life worth living."
Marsha Linehan
"The quality of your life depends on the quality of your thinking."
Albert Ellis
"The greatest tragedy is living according to others' expectations instead of your own."
Albert Ellis
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"We are defined not by what happens to us, but by how we make sense of it."
George Kelly
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"The quality of our lives is determined by the quality of the constructs through which we interpret them."
George Kelly
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"Psychological flexibility is the ability to stay present with what life brings."
Steven Hayes
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"The work is not to feel better; it is to get better at living."
Steven Hayes
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"The goal is not to feel better; it is to feel fully."
Steven Hayes
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"Life is the story you tell yourself about what happens to you."
Aaron Beck
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"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
Costa Paul
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"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."
Costa Paul
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"Life is a journey, not a destination."
Costa Paul
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"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
Costa Paul
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"Your personality is the instrument through which you play the music of your life."
Robert McCrae
"You can be dead and still alive, or alive and completely dead inside."
Albert Ellis
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"Life is most fulfilling when lived according to your personality"
Hans Eysenck
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"Each person possesses a unique constellation of traits that defines their essence."
Raymond Cattell
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"The most important thing about a person's life is not what happens to them, but how they interpret what happens."
George Kelly
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"We are all architects of our own understanding, building with the materials of experience."
George Kelly
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"A life well-lived is one where we continually evolve our understanding of ourselves."
George Kelly