Albert Ellis
Albert Ellis
Albert Elliswas 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 of the New York City-based Albert Ellis Institute for decades. 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 USA...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth27 September 1913
CountryUnited States of America
Albert Ellis quotes about
You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.
Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.
If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - about anything. Yes, anything.
Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.
Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.
Even when people act nastily to you, don't condemn them or retaliate.
Stop shoulding on yourself
Reality is not so much what happens to us; rather, it is how we think about those events that create the reality we experience. In a very real sense, this means that we each create the reality in which we live.
There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.
You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting.
People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.
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.
He would have been a security problem for any jail he would have been at. The judge was cognizant of that.