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Albert Ellis Quotes
Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because theyre alive and human. - Albert Ellis Quotes
As a result of my philosophy, I wasnt even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didnt hate him. I hated what he was doing. - Albert Ellis Quotes
By not caring too much about what people think, Im able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed. - Albert Ellis Quotes
For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. - Albert Ellis Quotes
Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency. - Albert Ellis Quotes
I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them. - Albert Ellis Quotes
I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didnt love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression. - Albert Ellis Quotes
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 Quotes
I hope to die in the saddle seat. - Albert Ellis Quotes
I just had a client this week who came to me after 10 years of Freudian therapy. Hes in love with his analyst, and she is sort of in love with him. - Albert Ellis Quotes
I regret that Ive been so busy with clinical work that I havent been able to spend much time on experiments and outcome studies. - Albert Ellis Quotes
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 Quotes
I think its unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; thats the human condition. - Albert Ellis Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I havent got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame. - Albert Ellis Quotes
I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts werent listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years. - Albert Ellis Quotes
Im very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it-going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert. - Albert Ellis Quotes
If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments. - Albert Ellis Quotes
If something is irrational, that means it wont work. Its usually unrealistic. - Albert Ellis Quotes
In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs. - Albert Ellis Quotes
Lets suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse. - Albert Ellis Quotes
Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop. - Albert Ellis Quotes
Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism Ive received over the years. - Albert Ellis Quotes
People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that theyd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection. - Albert Ellis Quotes
People dont just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. - Albert Ellis Quotes
People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change. - Albert Ellis Quotes
People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. - Albert Ellis Quotes
Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world. - Albert Ellis Quotes
Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because its conditional. - Albert Ellis Quotes
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