Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.
Albert EllisRead
Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the importance of perseverance in the face of criticism and adversity.
Albert Ellis emphasizes that while many individuals might succumb to the negative opinions and criticisms they encounter, resilience and the ability to continue striving for one's goals is essential. This perspective encourages individuals to view criticism not as a reason to give up, but as a challenge to overcome.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming obstacles.
Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.
Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis.
I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - about anything. Yes, anything.
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.
Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it teaches people unconditional self-acceptance.
Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.
Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very symbol of military excellence. The Corps has come to be recognized worldwide as an elite force of fighting men, renowned for their physical endurance, for their high level of obedience, and for the fierce pride they take, as individuals, in the capacity for self discipline.
I warn you against shedding blood, indulging in it and making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps.
Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.
Never be shamed of being Afrikan
..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.
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