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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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Exist
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Live

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There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women or that men are more willing to surrender their irrational beliefs. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
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We'd better work hard on getting rid of that must - Other people must do what I want them to do! It's what makes people hostile, nasty, mean and combative, and it leads to feuds, wars and genocide. We'd better do something about that.
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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. So it would have had more disadvantages than advantages for them.
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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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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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Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
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Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love and thereby seriously disturb yourself.
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So I'd better stop my whining and help myself cope better with even the worst Adversities.
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Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.
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I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955 later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.
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Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it teaches people unconditional self-acceptance.
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You mainly feel the way you think.
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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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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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Thinking rationally is often different from positive thinking, in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible.
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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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Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.
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I'm one of the best-loved psychologists in the United States, but I'm also probably the most hated one.
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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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I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.
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