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" Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human. "
She
Accept
Acceptance
" As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing. "
Doing
Hate
Philosophy
" By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed. "
Ideas
Myself
People
" For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. "
Dependency
Again
Religion
" Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency. "
Inefficiency
Efficiency
Think
" I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them. "
Get
People
Therapist
" I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression. "
Great
Anxiety
Depression
" 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. "
Myself
Women
Age
" I hope to die in the saddle seat. "
Death
Saddle
Hope
" I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert. "
Happy
World
Work
" In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs. "
People
Therapy
Old
" I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist. "
Myself
Started
Behavior
" I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition. "
Think
Unfair
Human
" I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs. "
Child
Think
Seriously
" Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse. "
Tell
You
Yourself
" People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. "
People
Just
Upset
" People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change. "
Insights
People
Got
" People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. "
Thoughts
Unaware
Motives
" Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world. "
Good
Real
Us
" Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional. "
Known
Self-Esteem
Sickness
" The art of love is largely the art of persistence. "
Largely
Persistence
Love Is
" 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. "
Best
Destiny
Mother
" There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy. "
Me
Easy
Brainy
" There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational. "
Rational
More
Men
" We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today. "
Thinking
Change
People
" You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it. "
Therefore
Your
You
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