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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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Exist
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Live

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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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For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
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In fact most of what we call anxiety is overconcern about what someone thinks of you.
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Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.
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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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When I started to get disillusioned with psychoanalysis I reread philosophy and was reminded of the constructivist notion that Epictetus had proposed 2,000 years ago: People are disturbed not by events that happen to them, but by their view of them. I could see how that applied to many of my clients.
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I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.
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If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions, thoughts, evaluations, and internalized sentences, they would find it quite possible to work calmly and concertedly at changing them.
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Even when people act nastily to you, don't condemn them or retaliate.
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Worrying about dying will hardly help you live.
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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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Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
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Reality is not so much what happens to us rather, it is how we think about those events that create the reality we experience. In a very real sense, this means that we each create the reality in which we live.
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Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.
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