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The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.
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'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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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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Even when people act nastily to you, don't condemn them or retaliate.
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You have only to exist as you do and to live your life as best you can.
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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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I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair that's the human condition.
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The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
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I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.
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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
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In fact most of what we call anxiety is overconcern about what someone thinks of you.
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The goal of all life is to have a ball.
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Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions.
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Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
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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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The goal...is not to change your desires and wishes but to persuade you to stop demanding that you absolutely must have what you wish-from yourself, from others, and from the world. You can by all means keep your wishes, preferences, and desires, but unless you prefer to remain needlessly anxious, not your grandiose demands.
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