Author Name

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.

Author : Albert Ellis

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven’t got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.

Author : 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.

Author : Albert Ellis

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn’t given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

Author : Albert Ellis

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

Author : 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.

Author : 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.

Author : Albert Ellis

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren’t listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.

Author : 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.

Author : Albert Ellis

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it’s conditional.

Author : Albert Ellis