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People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.
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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As a matter of fact, as a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.
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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.
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People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.
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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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Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.
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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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We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.
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Lack of forgiveness of others breeds lack of self-forgiveness.
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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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