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Albert Ellis, born on September 27, 1913, and died on July 24, 2007, was a renowned American psychologist. He founded Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), which has had a profound impact on the field of psychotherapy.

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“Humans can always accept themselves unconditionally.”

Humans Accepting

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“There are three musts that hold us back: "I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy." And I sometimes think that as long as we keep the second must, which is socially learned, then some screwballs 100 years from now will manufacture atomic bombs in their bathtub and maybe annihilate the whole human race because they demand that the rest of the world must agree with their dogmas. When we don't agree, they may zap us.”

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“If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Human Beings Laughing Martians

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“Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it teaches people unconditional self-acceptance.”

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Book:The essential Albert Ellis: seminal writings on psychotherapy

Source: The essential Albert Ellis: seminal writings on psychotherapy

“Spirit and soul is horseshit of the worst sort. Obviously there are no fairies, no Santa Clauses, no spirits. What there is, is human goals and purposes as noted by sane existentialists. But a lot of transcendentalists are utter screwballs.”

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“If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.”

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“To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.”

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“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.”

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“I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.”

Thinking Humans Conditions Human Condition Unfair Screwed Up

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