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You have only to exist as you do and to live your life as best you can.

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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There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
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I teach people to be flexible, scientific and logical in their thinking and therefore to be less prone to brainwashing by the therapist.
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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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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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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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I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
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Most things worth having require some sacrifice, usually more than you expect.
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By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.
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In fact most of what we call anxiety is overconcern about what someone thinks of you.
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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 attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.
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Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.
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Is self-esteem a sickness? That's according to the way you define it. In the usual way it is defined by people and by psychologists, I'd say that it is probably the greatest emotional disturbance known to man and woman.
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I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.
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If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.
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We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
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Spirit and soul is horseshit of the worst sort. Obviously there are no fairies, no Santa Clauses, no spirits. What there is, is human goals and purposes as noted by sane existentialists. But a lot of transcendentalists are utter screwballs.
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If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.
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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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