Albert Ellis

The goal of all life is to have a ball.

— Albert Ellis

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

— Albert Ellis

“insight will help you very little.”

— Albert Ellis

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the…

— Albert Ellis

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

— Albert Ellis

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

— Albert Ellis

You have only to exist as you do and to live your life as best you can.

— Albert Ellis

If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.

— Albert Ellis

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.

— Albert Ellis

We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.

— Albert Ellis

Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them.

— Albert Ellis

The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own…

— Albert Ellis

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely…

— Albert Ellis

The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy,…

— Albert Ellis

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame…

— Albert Ellis

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the…

— Albert Ellis

The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it…

— Albert Ellis

If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally…

— Albert Ellis

As a matter of fact, as a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go…

— Albert Ellis

The goal...is not to change your desires and wishes but to persuade you to stop demanding that you absolutely must have what…

— Albert Ellis

Freudian therapists do a lot of listening and very little persuading, and that was one of the reasons I eventually gave up…

— Albert Ellis

In a sense, the religious person must have no real views of his own and it is presumptuous of him, in fact,…

— Albert Ellis

The Freudian tradition will never completely die because it has a few good points. For example, people have motives and thoughts of…

— Albert Ellis

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. They always have the power to think, and to think about their…

— Albert Ellis

If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions,…

— Albert Ellis

Fat is a barrier, a bellicose statement to others that, to some, justifies hostility in kind. The world says to the fat…

— Albert Ellis

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. If something is irrational, that means it won't work.…

— Albert Ellis

Most things worth having require some sacrifice, usually more than you expect.

— Albert Ellis

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

— Albert Ellis

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

— Albert Ellis

The individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for.

— Albert Ellis

Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.

— Albert Ellis

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

— Albert Ellis

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

— Albert Ellis

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.

— Albert Ellis

If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing.

— Albert Ellis

And just as two wrongs don't make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.

— Albert Ellis

I regret that I've been so busy with clinical work that I haven't been able to spend much time on experiments and…

— Albert Ellis

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

— Albert Ellis

I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.

— Albert Ellis