Writing a book Quotes by Albert Ellis

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on…

— Albert Ellis

“REBT’s Insight No. 1 holds that you have both healthy and unhealthy emotions”

— Albert Ellis

Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.

— Albert Ellis

So I'd better stop my whining and help myself cope better with even the worst Adversities.

— Albert Ellis

I'm one of the best-loved psychologists in the United States, but I'm also probably the most hated one.

— Albert Ellis

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it…

— Albert Ellis

I'm very happy. I like my work and I like the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according…

— Albert Ellis

Let's 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

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.

— Albert Ellis

“The concept of deservingness for one’s “sins” implies that certain acts are unquestionably under all conditions “sinful.” And this is impossible to prove.”

— Albert Ellis

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

— Albert Ellis

I teach people to be flexible, scientific and logical in their thinking and therefore to be less prone to brainwashing by the therapist.

— Albert Ellis