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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.
Albert Ellis
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For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
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If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.
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I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.
Albert Ellis
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The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
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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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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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I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
Albert Ellis
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I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.
Albert Ellis
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Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.
Albert Ellis
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Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
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If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
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I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it-going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.
Albert Ellis
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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 and practiced it.
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