I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them. Albert Ellis American Psychologist More Albert Ellis Quotes 1
People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection. Albert Ellis American Psychologist More Albert Ellis Quotes 1
People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. Albert Ellis American Psychologist More Albert Ellis Quotes 1
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. Albert Ellis American Psychologist More Albert Ellis Quotes 1
For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. Albert Ellis American Psychologist More Albert Ellis Quotes 0
Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency. Albert Ellis American Psychologist More Albert Ellis Quotes 0
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. Albert Ellis American Psychologist More Albert Ellis Quotes 0
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. Albert Ellis American Psychologist More Albert Ellis Quotes 0
People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change. Albert Ellis American Psychologist More Albert Ellis Quotes 0
People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. Albert Ellis American Psychologist More Albert Ellis Quotes 0
Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world. Albert Ellis American Psychologist More Albert Ellis Quotes 0
Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional. Albert Ellis American Psychologist More Albert Ellis Quotes 0
The art of love is largely the art of persistence. Albert Ellis American Psychologist More Albert Ellis Quotes 0
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. Albert Ellis American Psychologist More Albert Ellis Quotes 0
There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy. Albert Ellis American Psychologist More Albert Ellis Quotes 0
There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational. Albert Ellis American Psychologist More Albert Ellis Quotes 0
We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today. Albert Ellis American Psychologist More Albert Ellis Quotes 0
You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it. Albert Ellis American Psychologist More Albert Ellis Quotes 0
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. Albert Ellis American Psychologist More Albert Ellis Quotes 0
I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public. Albert Ellis American Psychologist More Albert Ellis Quotes 0
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. Albert Ellis American Psychologist More Albert Ellis Quotes 0
I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition. Albert Ellis American Psychologist More Albert Ellis Quotes 0
I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs. Albert Ellis American Psychologist More Albert Ellis Quotes 0
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. Albert Ellis American Psychologist More Albert Ellis Quotes 0