“If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing.”
― Albert Ellis
― Albert Ellis
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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.”
― Albert Ellis
― Albert Ellis
"Perfection" is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe. There is no perfection. It's really the world's greatest con game; it promises riches and delivers misery. The harder you strive for perfection, the worse your disappointment will become because it's only an abstraction, a concept that doesn't fit reality. Everything can be improved if you look at it closely and critically enough—every person, every idea, every work of art, every experience, everything. So if you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.
― David D. Burns, Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
― David D. Burns, Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
“If our thinking is bogged down by distorted symbolic meanings, illogical reasoning and erroneous interpretations, we become, in truth, blind and deaf.”
― Aaron Beck
― Aaron Beck
"Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems."
― Epictetus
― Epictetus
The Four Questions
- Is it true?
- Can you absolutely know that it’s true?
- How do you react when you believe that thought?
- Who would you be without that thought?
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One reason why irrational thoughts, beliefs and perceptions can stay fixed is because often the client’s behaviour will continue to reinforce the older more irrational thought rather than the newly appraised thoughts.
“Believing that life should be free of all distress is a national health problem.”
~ Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski
~ Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski
“To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.”
― Epictetus
― Epictetus
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“Guilt is the rejection of the Self.”
"Guilt = Wrongness + Worthlessness"
"Never, never, ever, put yourself down about anything!"
~ Vincent E. Parr, You Only Have Four Problems (free online book)
"Guilt = Wrongness + Worthlessness"
"Never, never, ever, put yourself down about anything!"
~ Vincent E. Parr, You Only Have Four Problems (free online book)
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(PDF) In Conversation with Dr Albert Ellis
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"People do do bad things but they are never, never bad people. Nor are they good people when they behave well."
― Albert Ellis
While [Albert] Ellis strongly supported unconditional positive regard of clients, he believed they could, and had better, accept themselves and adopt unconditional positive regard of themselves whether or not their therapist or anyone else does.
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"You really only have two choices of self-acceptance ― to accept yourself conditionally or unconditionally. The first choice won't work."
― Albert Ellis
"The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best -- and therefore never scrutinize or question."
“The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor — not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies “out there” in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition.”
~ Stephen Jay Gould
“The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor — not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies “out there” in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition.”
~ Stephen Jay Gould
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“If you haven’t made any mistakes lately, you’re either dead or playing things extraordinarily safe.”
– Windy Dryden
– Windy Dryden
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