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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.
Albert Ellis
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Albert Ellis
Age: 93 †
Born: 1913
Born: September 27
Died: 2007
Died: July 24
Behaviour Therapist
Cognitive Scientist
Non-Fiction Writer
Psychologist
Sex Educator
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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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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If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
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So I'd better stop my whining and help myself cope better with even the worst Adversities.
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In fact most of what we call anxiety is overconcern about what someone thinks of you.
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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.
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We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.
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The world consists mainly of love slobs who need other people's approval. Most people don't live their own lives very well.
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Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
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I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs. In that sense, psychotherapy belongs in the schools.
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Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.
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Lack of forgiveness of others breeds lack of self-forgiveness.
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People are terrified of other people or difficult projects because they tell themselves that they could fail or be rejected. Failure can lead to sorrow, regret, frustration and annoyance-all healthy feelings without which people couldn't exist.
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Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.
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You mainly feel the way you think.
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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. So it would have had more disadvantages than advantages for them.
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Even when people act nastily to you, don't condemn them or retaliate.
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People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. They always have the power to think, and to think about their thinking, and to think about thinking about their thinking, which the goddamn dolphin, as far as we know, can't do. Therefore they have much greater ability to change themselves than any other animal has.
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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.
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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
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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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