American - Psychologist | September 27, 1913 - July 24, 2007
I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
Albert Ellis
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You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
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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.
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The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
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There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.
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By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.
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We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
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People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.
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I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.
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Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
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People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.
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