Albert Ellis Quotes

I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

I try to explain to people that the only way to be cool is to be who you truly are, and the only way to live life is to do the things that you want to do and be the person that you want to be no matter who that is or what that is or how you have to do it. That's the only way you can be genuinely happy.

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

I just live my life.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

There's too much judgment out there. Really what we need to be doing is just all of us finding our own paths towards living the best lives we can live as clearly and boldly in accordance with our own personal values. And that's what I'm trying to do.

I think everybody needs to find out who they are and who their, like, inner superhero is, or who you like to be. The world would be a better place if everyone was doing what the hell they wanted to do and being who they wanted to be.

I just need to be me.

Everyone has a right to their own opinion about me, and that's fine. I'm just going to keep being myself and living my life. That's all I can do.

The big message is, you're the star in your own life. You don't have to change; you are who you are. Go and do what you want to do.

Be yourself & you can be anything.

The only way you're going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.

I have no designs on society, or nature, or God. I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.

I don't want to spend my time thinking about somebody else, I want to spend my time just being me and embracing life and living it and being there. At the end of the day, I'm responsible for my words and my thoughts and that's how I live.

You can't go around being what everyone wants you to be, living your life through other people's rules, and expect to be happy and have inner peace.

I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.

Enjoy going through life as yourself.

Be yourself, you’ll be a lot happier.

The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.

You should embrace who you are, and make the best person that you can be, not what somebody else wants you to be.

But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy girl with think, dark hair, He would have made me that way, but He didn't. Useful, then, might be to accept how I was made and embody myself fully therein.