Dependency Quote by Albert Ellis Download Open image “For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.” — Albert Ellis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dependency Religion
The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to acknowledge -… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity. — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
In religion is much tiredness of people, a giving over of their doing to Someone Else. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“Religion is the process of internal growth, not a lifeless bag of foolish words.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any… — Pat Boone Copy Share Image
Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“When you say you love God, you are saying you love everything. Immature religion becomes an excuse for not loving a whole bunch of things and reveals that you have not had an authentic God experience yet. Rigid religion and compulsive religiosity, all unloving religion, is a rather clear sign that you have not met God! Once you have had… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
I forgive You in advance, You Havn't Offended Me, Aint a Kid Spiritually, call It Spiritual Maturity — Miles Ethereal Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“REBT’s Insight No. 1 holds that you have both healthy and unhealthy emotions” — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
So I'd better stop my whining and help myself cope better with even the worst Adversities. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
I'm one of the best-loved psychologists in the United States, but I'm also probably the most hated one. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A lot of energy is lost to false teachers. Wherever dependency is created, energy is lost. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The second most common misconception about love is the idea that dependency is love...Its effect is seen most dramatically in an individual who makes… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency. — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people. — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
In such a government as ours no man is appointed to an office because he is the fittest for it--nor hardly in any other… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The exploitation agenda advocated by liberals is modeled after the dependency-inducing design of the drug dealer's business model: "We'll supply the first hit for… — Angela McGlowan Copy Share Image
“The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The rise or fall, success or failure of your dreams is largely dependent on the association you build yourself around.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If you depend on your company to take care of your retirement, your future income will be divided by five. Take care of it… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I was particularly talking with respect to aid, because that to me is one area that can make people so dependent, and unfortunately, that… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
