02UndatedYou 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.Albert Ellis / quote ↗
03UndatedThe 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 / quote ↗
05UndatedThere are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.Albert Ellis / quote ↗
07UndatedFor that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.Albert Ellis / quote ↗
08UndatedThere's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.Albert Ellis / quote ↗
09UndatedPeople 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 / quote ↗
10UndatedWe teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.Albert Ellis / quote ↗
11UndatedI 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 / quote ↗
