Albert Ellis

Albert Ellis (born September 27, 1913) is an American psychologist whose Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), is the of all cognitive and therapies.

Quotes

• "The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence."
• "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."
• "The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer."
• "People and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us."
• "Emotional disturbance doesn?t come from anybody?s F-ing childhood. The idea that your mother made you disturbed is Freudian ! The Freudian?s always forget to ask the most relevant question: ?Who ? your mother?.?? The answer is, ?You did!? As Pogo says, ?We have seen the enemy , and it is us!? We upset ourselves! Nobody in human history was ever made upset.?