Albert Ellis Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.

Lack of forgiveness of others breeds lack of self-forgiveness.

Even when people act nastily to you, don't condemn them or retaliate.

I hope to die in the saddle seat.

Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.

Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.

Evolution is arranged so that a species survives, not so that it will be happy while it survives.

The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations.

You mainly feel the way you think.

Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.

You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.

And just as two wrongs don't make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.

Stop shoulding on yourself

Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis.

Worrying about dying will hardly help you live.

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.

Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.

For many years now I have had the quaint idea that all humans-yes, the whole six billion of them on this planet-are out of their fucking minds.

If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing.

By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.

The goal of all life is to have a ball.

We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.

If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.

Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.

You have only to exist as you do and to live your life as best you can.

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

I regret that I've been so busy with clinical work that I haven't been able to spend much time on experiments and outcome studies.

Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.

Most things worth having require some sacrifice, usually more than you expect.

The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.