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Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.

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
Wise
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High
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Whining
Neurosis

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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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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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I regret that I've been so busy with clinical work that I haven't been able to spend much time on experiments and outcome studies.
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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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Most things worth having require some sacrifice, usually more than you expect.
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When people change their irrational beliefs to undogmatic flexible preferences, they become less disturbed.
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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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The goal of all life is to have a ball.
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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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If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
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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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Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.
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The easy way out is often just that-the 'easy' way out of the most rewarding lifestyle.
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Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.
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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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Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them.
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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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