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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.

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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The world consists mainly of love slobs who need other people's approval. Most people don't live their own lives very well.
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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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We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.
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You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
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People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.
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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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Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency. Had I not been a therapist, I would have been an efficiency expert.
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The goal...is not to change your desires and wishes but to persuade you to stop demanding that you absolutely must have what you wish-from yourself, from others, and from the world. You can by all means keep your wishes, preferences, and desires, but unless you prefer to remain needlessly anxious, not your grandiose demands.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.
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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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People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
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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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Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.
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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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