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“problems instead of giving them a fresh start.”
― George S. Pransky, The Relationship Handbook: A Simple Guide to Satisfying Relationships - Anniversary Edition

“Thought determines the form that mind takes in our own personal life. Some people use thought to create a painful, harsh existence. Other people use thought to create a gentle and enjoyable life.”
― George S. Pransky, The Secret to Mental Health: An Operating Manual for the Human Mind

“To understand an idea means that that idea becomes real to the person not just something with which the person intellectually agrees.”
― George S. Pransky, The Secret to Mental Health: An Operating Manual for the Human Mind

“I’ve got class. I am such a discriminating person that no one is good enough for me. My sister has zero class. She is indiscriminately happy.”
― George Pransky, The Relationship Handbook

“it was her fears that took away her emotional stability.”
― George S. Pransky, The Secret to Mental Health: An Operating Manual for the Human Mind

“Often people think of feelings as things to work through or deal with. But feelings were meant to be a barometer to help us maintain our emotional equilibrium. Feelings provide our moment-to-moment experience of life. They tell us the extent to which our perceptions are distorted by our moods and thought systems.”
― George S. Pransky, The Relationship Handbook: A Simple Guide to Satisfying Relationships - Anniversary Edition

“Happiness has to come from within, via the understanding of one’s thinking.”
― George S. Pransky, The Secret to Mental Health: An Operating Manual for the Human Mind

“If we are feeling upset and troubled, we may not be in touch with what thoughts are upsetting us, but we can assume that our quality of thinking is not very good at that moment.”
― George S. Pransky, The Secret to Mental Health: An Operating Manual for the Human Mind

“We see other people thinking and living in the world of their thoughts.”
― George S. Pransky, The Secret to Mental Health: An Operating Manual for the Human Mind

“see those thoughts for what they were and realize that his memories were no longer real. I suggested to him if he could see them as thoughts masquerading as reality, then these memories would lose their power.”
― George S. Pransky, The Secret to Mental Health: An Operating Manual for the Human Mind

“our moment-to-moment experience of life is somehow linked to our own thinking.”
― George S. Pransky, The Secret to Mental Health: An Operating Manual for the Human Mind

“Thought creates a reality and then tells us it didn’t do that—that the reality was there before I came. This is a big problem for society.”—”
― George S. Pransky, The Secret to Mental Health: An Operating Manual for the Human Mind