Author Profile
Albert Ellis
1913 – 2007 • American • Psychologist
33
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 33 quotesPeople got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.— Albert Ellis
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
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 it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.— Albert Ellis
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
I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.— Albert Ellis
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
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
Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.— 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 didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.— Albert Ellis
If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.— Albert Ellis
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.— Albert Ellis
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