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Citate terapeutice - Albert Ellis

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because theyre alive and human.
Albert Ellis

As a result of my philosophy, I wasnt even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didnt hate him. I hated what he was doing.
Albert Ellis

By not caring too much about what people think, Im able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.
Albert Ellis

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

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

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

I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didnt love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.
Albert Ellis

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

I hope to die in the saddle seat.
Albert Ellis

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

I think its unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; thats the human condition.
Albert Ellis

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

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I havent got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.
Albert Ellis

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts werent listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.
Albert Ellis

Im 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

If something is irrational, that means it wont work. Its usually unrealistic.
Albert Ellis

In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.
Albert Ellis

Lets suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.
Albert Ellis

Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism Ive received over the years.
Albert Ellis

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that theyd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.
Albert Ellis

People dont just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.
Albert Ellis

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
Albert Ellis

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.
Albert Ellis

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

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because its conditional.
Albert Ellis

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
Albert Ellis

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

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.
Albert Ellis

Theres no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
Albert Ellis

We teach people that they upset themselves. We cant change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
Albert Ellis

You largely constructed your depression. It wasnt given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
Albert Ellis

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