Albert Ellis Quotes

If you have trouble with finding things you should get into some kind of therapy with a good therapist if you need, I mean I just believe in therapy for everybody. I really do. I don't think any body can escape it.

I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

I think all the bad things I have been through are in the past. I believe I am on the right path now, dealing with the people who can help me, the right kind of people.

It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more.

The way I change my life is to act as if I am the person I really want to be.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that. I think that probably, at my core, if I had done no work on myself, I would probably be Laura from The Mysteries Of Laura, but I worked hard to be a more stable person because that's what I wanted out of my life.

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.

I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person.

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".

You will never change anything that you are willing to tolerate.

If you want to improve your life and the lives of those around you, you must take action.

As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.

God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits.

Mary Allen has compiled a wealth of tools and resources - both inner and outer - to support you in consciously directing your untapped potential and creating a life that you love.

When you change your thinking, you change actions, when you change your action you change your future.

It's time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it.

I am proactive and looking to change my own behavior rather than others' - which is generally much more successful!

Take a good look at your life right now. If you don't like something about it, close your eyes and imagine the life you want. Now allow yourself to focus your inner eye on the person you would be if you were living this preferred life. Notice the differences in how you behave and present yourself; allow yourself to spend several seconds breathing in the new image, expanding your energy into this.

You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.

Accept yourself. But realize your behaviors can be bad.

One of the best places to start to turn your life around is by doing whatever appears on your mental "I should" list.

Knowing that one is always capable of change, the second step lies in making the decision to change. Change does not occur by merely willing it anymore than behavior changes simply through insight.

Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness and trust-based relationships.

When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy.