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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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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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I don't recommend that people speak their minds to their bosses or to somebody who's directly over them. You need to know when to speak your mind and what the penalty will be for doing so. Sometimes it's worth it, and often it's not!
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The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.
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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'm one of the best-loved psychologists in the United States, but I'm also probably the most hated one.
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Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.
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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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So I'd better stop my whining and help myself cope better with even the worst Adversities.
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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.
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Lack of forgiveness of others breeds lack of self-forgiveness.
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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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When people change their irrational beliefs to undogmatic flexible preferences, they become less disturbed.
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We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
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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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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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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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And just as two wrongs don't make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.
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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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I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.
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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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Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them.
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