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Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.
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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 got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
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If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - about anything. Yes, anything.
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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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When people change their irrational beliefs to undogmatic flexible preferences, they become less disturbed.
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I'm very happy. I like my work and I like the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert - I like that. And seeing clients, doing group therapy, writing books.
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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.
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You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.
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Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
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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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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.
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