Albert Ellis Quotes
Top 65 wise famous quotes and sayings by Albert Ellis
Albert Ellis Famous Quotes & Sayings
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There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well . And the world must be easy.
By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.
Keep my desires and goals in mind. Don't insist that they must or must not be fulfilled. Let me work unfrantically to achieve them. REBT
Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.
There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.
Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.
Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them.
The individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for.
I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.
I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.
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.
The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations.
And just as two wrongs don't make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.
Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis.
Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.
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.
By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.
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.