"Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all……" — Albert Ellis
"Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering."
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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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More Acceptance Quotes
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Confine yourself to the present.
— Marcus Aurelius
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
— Alan Ball
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
— Melody Beattie
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
— Josh Billings
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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