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Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

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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Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.
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If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.
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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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Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.
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