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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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Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them.
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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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Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency. Had I not been a therapist, I would have been an efficiency expert.
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To err is human to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.
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Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.
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People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
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The goal of all life is to have a ball.
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I would like to be remembered as one of the individuals who founded, ideologically and practically, cognitive behavior therapy and who pioneered multimodal or integrated therapy.
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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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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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You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.
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