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if you think people should, ought, must, have to and need to behave according to your wishes, or some accepted standard, you will often be let down.
Make A LOT of room for imperfection in your life and in the lives of others.
People are more likely to defend their behavior than to change it, when they are being attacked.
People do not become upset simply because something happens.
If our beliefs are rigid and absolutistic, they are considered dysfunctional, leading only to a place of enduring unhappiness.
Changing the way you think and behave will be the most important thing you can do to build your emotional strength.
Self-defeating thoughts ignore the positive, exaggerate the negative, distort reality and over-generalize.
