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

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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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Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis.
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Lack of forgiveness of others breeds lack of self-forgiveness.
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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.
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We'd better work hard on getting rid of that must - Other people must do what I want them to do! It's what makes people hostile, nasty, mean and combative, and it leads to feuds, wars and genocide. We'd better do something about that.
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People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
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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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You mainly feel the way you think.
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To err is human to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.
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There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
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Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it teaches people unconditional self-acceptance.
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Beginning in the 1960s, many studies showed that people who hold what we call irrational beliefs are significantly more disturbed than when they don't hold them, and the more strongly they hold them, the more disturbed they tend to be.
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Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.
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Humans can always accept themselves unconditionally.
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The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
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You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting.
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Strong feelings are fine it's the overreactions that mess us up.
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Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions.
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Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
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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.
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Reality is not so much what happens to us rather, it is how we think about those events that create the reality we experience. In a very real sense, this means that we each create the reality in which we live.
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