Albert Ellis Quotes

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• Spirit and soul is horseshit of the worst sort. Obviously there are no fairies, no Santa Clauses, no spirits. What there is, is human goals…
• If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences,…
• Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of…
• People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. They always have the power to think, and to think about their thinking, and to…
• If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions, thoughts, evaluations, and…
• The emotionally sound person should be able to take risks, to ask himself what he really would like to do in life, and then to…
• You mainly feel the way you think.
• You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.
• The goal of all life is to have a ball.
• Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.
• The easy way out is often just that-the 'easy' way out of the most rewarding lifestyle.
• Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.
• The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action,…
• We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.
• Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.
• By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.
• The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.
• Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.
• In fact most of what we call anxiety is overconcern about what someone thinks of you.
• Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions.

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