Albert Ellis was an American psychologist who in 1955 developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy.
Born: September 27, 1913
Died: July 24, 2007
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.
Even injustice has it’s good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.
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.
There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.
Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it’s conditional.
People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.
People don’t just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.
There’s no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
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.
We teach people that they upset themselves. We can’t change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.
The art of love… is largely the art of persistence.
