"Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions."

“Dividing into teams doesn't necessarily mean denigrating others. Studies of groupishness have generally found that groups increase in-group love far more than they increase out-group hostility.”

“Although it may be the easiest, it's not always the best.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Ormonde, www.londoncalling.com. November 21, 2015.

“That's part of the problem, the overkill. And when they make it complicated, they make it expensive and so then you can no longer stay in business.”

“Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.”

“[M]embers of the media-monetary-military-congressional complex are immoral and have an allergy to the truth.”

“There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea... that what we call reality is not real at all. When I draw a head, for example, I immediately feel an urge to destroy it, to erase it, because the drawing only captures an outward appearance, and for me the vital issue is what lies behind the visual form of the head.”

“I work to stay alive.”

“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.”

Source : Albert Ellis (2010). “Overcoming Destructive Beliefs, Feelings, and Behaviors: New Directions for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy”, p.49, Prometheus Books