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Sex Educator Inspirational Quotes (417)

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Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.
Albert Ellis
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Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis.
Albert Ellis
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Being assertive does not mean attacking or ignoring others feelings. It means that you are willing to hold up for yourself fairly-without attacking others.
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The individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for.
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Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.
Albert Ellis
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And just as two wrongs don't make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.
Albert Ellis
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The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations.
Albert Ellis
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Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions.
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In fact most of what we call anxiety is overconcern about what someone thinks of you.
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By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.
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Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.
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The easy way out is often just that-the 'easy' way out of the most rewarding lifestyle.
Albert Ellis
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The goal of all life is to have a ball.
Albert Ellis
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You mainly feel the way you think.
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If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.
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Spirit and soul is horseshit of the worst sort. Obviously there are no fairies, no Santa Clauses, no spirits. What there is, is human goals and purposes as noted by sane existentialists. But a lot of transcendentalists are utter screwballs.
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Is self-esteem a sickness? That's according to the way you define it. In the usual way it is defined by people and by psychologists, I'd say that it is probably the greatest emotional disturbance known to man and woman.
Albert Ellis
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Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis.
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People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.
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Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.
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Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.
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I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955 later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.
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I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.
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I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.
Albert Ellis
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