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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
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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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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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If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing.
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The goal of all life is to have a ball.
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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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You mainly feel the way you think.
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When people change their irrational beliefs to undogmatic flexible preferences, they become less disturbed.
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Stop shoulding on yourself
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Humans can always accept themselves unconditionally.
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I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.
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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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Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them.
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Most things worth having require some sacrifice, usually more than you expect.
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Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions.
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