Stop shoulding on yourself

- Albert Ellis

If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - …

- Albert Ellis

Strong feelings are fine; it's the overreactions that mess us up.

- Albert Ellis

You mainly feel the way you think.

- Albert Ellis

Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them.

- Albert Ellis

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

People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.

- Albert Ellis

The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.

- Albert Ellis

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 pr…

- Albert Ellis