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

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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
Exist
Best
Live
Life

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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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If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - about anything. Yes, anything.
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If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing.
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I don't recommend that people speak their minds to their bosses or to somebody who's directly over them. You need to know when to speak your mind and what the penalty will be for doing so. Sometimes it's worth it, and often it's not!
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Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
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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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Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis.
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This, perhaps, goes to show that conditional self-esteem, as I have said for many years, is an insidious, real sickness, so much so that even Buddhists carelessly sneak it in and sometimes encourage their clients to achieve it.
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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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Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
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You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.
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You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
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You mainly feel the way you think.
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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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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 with them because, again, I don't care too much what other people think.
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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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Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.
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The goal of all life is to have a ball.
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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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Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.
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