Elements Quote by Albert Ellis

“Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement…

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To me, the most important elements in a theatre are the actors and the texts.

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