Acceptance Quote by Albert Ellis

“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.” quote by Albert Ellis — Download Open image

“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

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

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

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The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

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Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.

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