Albert Ellis Quotes

• 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

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  Tags in Fallible, Screwed, Unfair, Right, Human

• 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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  Tags in Rational, Emotive, Therapist, Myself, Behavior

• I hope to die in the saddle seat.

  Albert Ellis

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  Tags in Hope, Die

• I had a great many s*x 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

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Themselves, Devastated, Compulsively, Killing, Depression

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

  Albert Ellis

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• Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.

  Albert Ellis

  Tags in Efficiency, Inefficiency

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

  Albert Ellis

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  Tags in Dependency, Essentially, Childish, Manner

• 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.

  Albert Ellis

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  Tags in Caring, Think, Myself

• As a result of my philosophy, I wasn’t even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn’t hate him. I hated what he was doing.

  Albert Ellis

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  Tags in Result, Hate, Philosophy, Knock

• 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.

  Albert Ellis

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  Tags in Acceptance

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

  Albert Ellis

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  Tags in Women

• The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

  Albert Ellis

  Topics in Art, Love

  Tags in Persistence, Largely

• People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they’d much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.

  Albert Ellis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Relationships, Rejection, Dating

• 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

  Topics in Age

• 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.

  Albert Ellis

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  Tags in Responsibility, Control, Maturity, Destiny

Albert Ellis (35)

Birth:	27th September, 1913
Death:	24th July, 2007
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Writer

About

Albert Ellis was an American psychologist who in 1955 developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. He held M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in clinical psychology from Columbia University and American Board of Professional Psychology. He also founded and was the president emeritus of the New York City-based Albert Ellis Institute.He is generally considered to be one of the originators of the cognitive revolutionary paradigm shift in psychotherapy and the founder of cognitive-behavioral therapies. Based on a 1982 professional survey of U.S. and Canadian psychologists, he was considered as the second most influential psychotherapist in history.

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