#th

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. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#anxiety #back #cases #compulsively #depression

Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#eye #poke #smile #than

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. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#call #emotive #i #later #myself

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#directive #foolishly #forms #freudian #i

Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#angry #because #been #exceptionally #flying

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#people #thoughts #unaware #which

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#bring #closer #getting #good #rational

I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right. ↗

— David R. Ellis

#come #directors #felt #go #going

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#being #books #built #i #i think

I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#college #east #east coast #i #stayed