Becca

“While it is possible that we do know what's right for others, unless they agree with us, trying to force this knowledge on them is usually a disaster.”
― William Glasser, For Parents and Teenagers: Dissolving the Barrier Between You and Your Teen

“unhappiness can lead people in two directions. The first unhappy group tries to find the way back to happiness, which I define as pleasurable relationships with happy people. The second unhappy group has given up on finding happiness with happy people; they no longer even try to have pleasurable relationships. But like all of us, they do not give up on trying to feel good. They continually search for pleasure without relationships and find much of it by abusing food, alcohol, drugs, and by engaging in violence and unloving sex. If we cannot create a society in which more people are happy, we will never come close to reducing these destructive and self-destructive choices.”
― William Glasser, Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom

“Choice Theory explains that, for all practical purposes, we choose everything we do.”
― William Glasser

“Addiction, that is, negative addiction, is the third, and in terms of pain, essentially successful choice in the series of choices made by people who are unable to find sufficient love and worth. Each choice—from the initial decision to give up trying to find love or worth, the second choice to take on one or more symptoms, and the final choice of becoming addicted—is a pain-reducing step. The reason addiction is powerful and difficult to break is that it alone of all the choices consistently both completely relieves the pain of failure, and provides an intensely pleasurable experience.”
― William Glasser, Positive Addiction