"Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a……" — Albert Ellis
"Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor."
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81 Quotes by Albert Ellis
Albert Ellis has 81 quotes on this site.
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Spirit and soul is horseshit of the worst sort. Obviously there are no fairies, no Santa Clauses, no spirits. What…
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If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or…
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Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or…
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People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. They always have the power to think, and to think…
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If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed…
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The emotionally sound person should be able to take risks, to ask himself what he really would like to do…
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You mainly feel the way you think.
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You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.
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The goal of all life is to have a ball.
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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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The easy way out is often just that-the 'easy' way out of the most rewarding lifestyle.
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Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best…
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained…
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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
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Nothing adventured, nothing attained
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Greatness is attained only by the thinking of great thoughts.
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For I have shown from the Scriptures, that no one of the sons of Adam is as to everything, and…
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When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. You will see the…
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