Life is Loss

Every Loss Is an Opportunity to Improve Your Life

If you lose an arm, said Albert Ellis, do everything possible to deal with it, then ignore it and focus on choices for satisfaction. You may not have as many choices but you still have some.

the purpose of life is satisfaction

Why did you make that art? I found it satisfying.

Image: Arthur Rackham, 1906

Many people in our civilization appear to believe and to act on the proposition that because something once affected their life significantly, or was once appropriate to their existence, it should remain so forever.

Albert Ellis