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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.

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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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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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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Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.
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The goal of all life is to have a ball.
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You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.
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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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Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.
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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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People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.
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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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There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women or that men are more willing to surrender their irrational beliefs. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
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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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