Albert Ellis Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting.

  Albert Ellis

  Thinking, Self, Healthy

  Albert Ellis (2010). “Overcoming Destructive Beliefs, Feelings, and Behaviors: New Directions for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy”, p.49, Prometheus Books

• If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.

  Albert Ellis

  Thinking, Self, Feelings

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

  Albert Ellis

  Strong, Feelings, Fine

  Albert Ellis, Arthur Lange (2016). “How To Keep People From Pushing Your Buttons”, p.28, Citadel

• People are terrified of other people or difficult projects because they tell themselves that they could fail or be rejected. Failure can lead to sorrow, regret, frustration and annoyance - all healthy, negative feelings without which people couldn't exist. But then they add, "I absolutely must succeed and must be loved by significant persons, and if I don't, it's terrible and I'm no good." Those are irrational beliefs. As long as people keep them, they'll be terrified of life and will put themselves down when they get rejected.

  Albert Ellis

  Regret, Frustration, Long

  "The Prince of Reason". Interview with Robert Epstein, www.psychologytoday.com. January 1, 2001.

• We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

  Albert Ellis

  Past, Thinking, People

• People are terrified of other people or difficult projects because they tell themselves that they could fail or be rejected. Failure can lead to sorrow, regret, frustration and annoyance-all healthy feelings without which people couldn't exist.

  Albert Ellis

  Regret, Frustration, People

• Being assertive does not mean attacking or ignoring others feelings. It means that you are willing to hold up for yourself fairly-without attacking others.

  Albert Ellis

  Attitude, Mean, Feelings

• We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

  Albert Ellis

  Past, Thinking, People

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