Albert Ellis quote: "I just got fed up. I was ready to blow up. This country is about enforcing our laws and if we don't, we'll have chaos worse than we already do."

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

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching ...
ALBERT ELLIS

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the...
ALBERT ELLIS

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my ob...
ALBERT ELLIS

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that&#...
ALBERT ELLIS

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.
ALBERT ELLIS

The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.
ALBERT ELLIS

I hope to die in the saddle seat.
ALBERT ELLIS

Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous beca...
ALBERT ELLIS

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.
ALBERT ELLIS

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to kn...
ALBERT ELLIS

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.
ALBERT ELLIS

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more dire...
ALBERT ELLIS

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equa...
ALBERT ELLIS

I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with who...
ALBERT ELLIS

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and tha...
ALBERT ELLIS

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
ALBERT ELLIS

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

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas...
ALBERT ELLIS

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
ALBERT ELLIS

The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.
ALBERT ELLIS

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept every...
ALBERT ELLIS

He would have been a security problem for any jail he would have been at. The judge was cognizant of...
ALBERT ELLIS

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency
ALBERT ELLIS

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I...
ALBERT ELLIS

The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy,...
ALBERT ELLIS

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.You do not b...
ALBERT ELLIS

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not ...
ALBERT ELLIS

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about...
ALBERT ELLIS

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
ALBERT ELLIS

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every c...
ALBERT ELLIS

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
ALBERT ELLIS

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct ...
ALBERT ELLIS

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas whi...
ALBERT ELLIS

He appeared to me the bravest man it fell to my unhappy lot to execute.
ALBERT ELLIS

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency
ALBERT ELLIS

Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfa...
ALBERT ELLIS

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people ar...
ALBERT ELLIS

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of p...
ALBERT ELLIS

In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. N...
ALBERT ELLIS

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
ALBERT ELLIS

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't b...
ALBERT ELLIS

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept every...
ALBERT ELLIS

I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone lo...
ALBERT ELLIS

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
ALBERT ELLIS

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must ...
ALBERT ELLIS

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock ...
ALBERT ELLIS

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency
ALBERT ELLIS

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ALBERT ELLIS

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well . And the world must...
ALBERT ELLIS

The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happ...
DR. ALBERT ELLIS

The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy,...
DR. ALBERT ELLIS

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspect...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the pop...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and ...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

When I'm working in finite serials, I always think in terms of the entire book rather than the i...
WARREN ELLIS

I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.
WARREN ELLIS

Here's the thing about Apple technology: once you own a piece, you want to use it.
WARREN ELLIS

I live on my phone: I have a bunch of news and informational apps on there.
WARREN ELLIS

If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research ab...
WARREN ELLIS

I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
WARREN ELLIS

It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.
WARREN ELLIS

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

In his usual perverse way, because he is so good at it, he thinks little of acting. Because he has a...
BOB ELLIS

That was my biggest downfall as a hitter. I'd pop up to second at least twice a game.
MARK ELLIS

No Turning Back: The Life and Death of Animal Species ... deeply informed and crafted with artistry.
RICHARD ELLIS

What we call "Progress"is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance
HAVELOCK ELLIS

There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product
HAVELOCK ELLIS

To be honest, that last month of college was one big party.
ALEX ELLIS

A very simple test proved to be remarkably successful at distinguishing people with early Alzheimer'...
ANDY ELLIS

They are animals whose names children tend to learn more at around the age of six to 10 rather than ...
ANDY ELLIS

I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.
BRET ELLIS

Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre n...
BRET ELLIS

Should you need to sell the home within a year or two there is not a lot of equity there.
BRETT ELLIS

Probably in the last six months I've seen more 100% financing deals than I've seen in the last two t...
BRETT ELLIS

Some of them are $40,000, and they've been sitting there for 120 days.
BRETT ELLIS

We did see a drop-off in buyer volume.
BRETT ELLIS

Even though our campus is predominantly female, that major is down.
BRENT ELLIS

We seem to be holding our own financially. There's a good core congregation here that works hard.
BRENT ELLIS

We have got to start finding a third or fourth scorer. ... I told the guys before the game tonight (...
BRIAN ELLIS

You're always asking yourself, are you doing the best for your child? And other parents let you ...
TOM ELLIS

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within th...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Finally, we're going to have our day in court. We need a good showing of our membership in the court...
ELLIS ANDERSON

It's understandable that from time to time there'd be a need for executive sessions, but the device ...
ELLIS ANDERSON

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Giving birth to a new medspa takes a tremendous amount of labor pain, knowledge and expertise. Just ...
MARK ELLIS

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slav...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel.
DON ELLIS

That's the future. City-states rammed with again people huddling up against hospitals and looking up...
WARREN ELLIS

Maybe I was a little tentative. In hindsight, I should've played more aggressively. I made some miss...
JOHN ELLIS

Coach (Skip Prosser) tells me not to hesitate, he tells me just to let it ride. That was a momentum-...
CHRIS ELLIS

I'm not condoning what Max may have done to (McClure) at all, but it's just not right what (McClure)...
DALE ELLIS

He was just on fire. He was obviously motivated to get that jersey.
BILL ELLIS

He's been the glue that kept us together, ... He reminds us that it's not about us, but about Mrs. P...
CHARLES ELLIS

It’s funny how fate plays games with our lives. Sometimes we never see it coming.
MARY ELLIS

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.
HENRY ELLIS

Beets and turnips do well here, ... but not carrots. Back in Iowa, the carrots grew so big you could...
ROY ELLIS

Finally at 3:30 he called me as he was walking back to Brooklyn, ... He was late that morning so he ...
TOM ELLIS

To me, everything that is human is holy, ... So I don't think anything in the book is despicable or ...
ELLIS AMBURN

What's going on with short-term deficit is minor compared to the problem that is looming. But if the...
PIERRE ELLIS

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.
ELLIS PETERS

He'd always liked women who'd talk back to him just a little bit. "Girls with balls" were good. Wome...
WARREN ELLIS

Edna has to be lifted out of bed and into her wheelchair and back. I can't do that.
BETTY ELLIS

In refugee camps around the world, I met people who were gone. They were still walking around but ha...
DEBORAH ELLIS

The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possibl...
WARREN ELLIS

A lot of actors would tell you that they'd rather play the villain than the hero. When you'r...
TOM ELLIS

Right now, the need is immediate,
CHARLES ELLIS

They have a lot of colleges and universities (in Michigan), ... but they don't have a lot of jobs.
CLAIRE ELLIS

It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.
WARREN ELLIS

This has been a mystery for a thousand years. Nobody knew what they looked like in the wild. We only...
RICHARD ELLIS

Although we are looking back to when the universe was only six percent of its present age, this gala...
RICHARD ELLIS

Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been...
HENRY ELLIS

You release that, you're going up like a cork underwater. But you ain't getting it back, so that is ...
ELLIS ADAMS

When we make the cookies we take a long piece of dough and twist it three times. They represent Laza...
BETTY ELLIS

It is very nice for someone like me to be recognised by one's peers. This award is however not relat...
GEORGE ELLIS

I'm concerned that there is going to be a run on the bank to get stuff done under the guise of Katri...
STEVE ELLIS

They found holes in her intestine, holes in her stomach and a significant quantity of granular pelle...
LISA ELLIS

The cargo trade, especially on the import side, is growing at an unprecedented rate. One of the high...
AARON ELLIS

I had been quite judicious about the scripts I was reading, but nothing was really taking my fancy u...
TOM ELLIS

I first came across Phil Larder in his rugby league days. He was the Director of Coaching at the Rug...
DAVE ELLIS

Distributors need to develop close relationships with resellers and share information, and even if t...
DAVE ELLIS

Everything is there, if you use the tool box and the systems that are in place,
DAVE ELLIS

If something catastrophic happened, there are five counties we know can respond in hours,
DAVE ELLIS

After raising twins, you get organized.
SCOTT ELLIS

Passion Has No Paperwork
ELLIS MNYANDU

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Lucifer likes to have fun, but we need to make sure that he's also rooted in a proper journey. F...
TOM ELLIS

We beat them in a close, tough game earlier in the year.
DEAN ELLIS

We were in the fall, so guess what we were up against: college football and the Atlanta Braves in th...
DICK ELLIS

They clawed their way back at the end.
DOUG ELLIS

Bittersweet is a huge problem.
DONNA ELLIS

You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him.
RUTH ELLIS

It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to con...
DON ELLIS

On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.
DON ELLIS

I got bored with the old way - it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at an...
DON ELLIS

Only a small number of sound local and foreign financial institutions are being invited to participa...
ELLIS SHORT

The boy faced consecutive life sentences if he had gone to trial and had been found guilty. The proo...
ELLIS RUBIN

You have the right to cut off questioning at any time and remain silent,
ELLIS RUBIN

It takes some leadership when your peers are saying, 'Oh come on, Bradley.' But he makes good decisi...
ELLIS REYES

It's generally about keeping their eyes and ears out for the kids getting home.
ELLIS REYES

I think this will significantly change the LDP.
ELLIS KRAUSS

I think this will significantly change the LDP,
ELLIS KRAUSS

You don't have to be young and handsome, but you have to be able to manage the media and project an ...
ELLIS KRAUSS

we are pleased to announce that we have an agreement to sell the Fifth Avenue Cinemas to Festival Ci...
ELLIS JACOB

Once I caught the ball, all I was thinking was read the blocks, hold on to the ball and get up the f...
ELLIS HOBBS

It's never one man out there. It's an 11-man game.
ELLIS HOBBS

The only thing that's off limits is stuff that bores us.
ELLIS HENICAN

He's had to adjust because he wasn't used to playing in front of a packed crowd. Now that he's adjus...
ELLIS BERRY

They're professional football players. They'll come in and play football. We expect their best shot....
ELLIS WYMS

This is wonderful. We're delighted they're considering this form of relief. Any savings we can get w...
ELLIS WILLIFORD

It was a good event. Everybody who attended had a good time. They were all very supportive of the Re...
ELLIS WILLIFORD

You can have whatever viewpoint about the war that you want. In fact, we have a few different ones a...
ELLIS VERDI

We approached this very carefully.
ELLIS VERDI

Kids need as much help as we possibly can give at the lower levels to maybe deter some of the proble...
ELLIS VALENTINE

But there are some born to do penance by nature. Maybe they lift the load for some of us who take it...
ELLIS PETERS

I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safet...
AUNJANUE ELLIS

I don't think that a vote for Barack Obama is a symbolic thing. I think it's much more than ...
AUNJANUE ELLIS

You know you have to contain McNabb, and I credit our secondary because they covered their guys well...
GREG ELLIS

I credit them because they are fighters. Throughout the game, they felt like they were going to win.
GREG ELLIS

I think it helped, ... It was hot out there and we needed everyone to get it done.
GREG ELLIS

The way things are there leave a lot a to be desired, ... But it's clean and it's safe.
JACK ELLIS

I want them to vote and I might even recruit one to run for office,
JACK ELLIS

The main issues were wages and duration, and we dealt with those.
JAN ELLIS

Globe is a very special customer to us and we hope that everything will work out and they can stay i...
JAN ELLIS

The fact that Democrat leaders in Texas and nationally are attempting to use the criminal-justice sy...
JAMES ELLIS

We will not block access that we provide to the Internet based on the content received over that acc...
JAMES ELLIS

The mind paints before the brush.
JAMES ELLIS

He's legit. We couldn't play him man-to-man. He's tough to stop.
JEFF ELLIS

However, they seem to have been driven into the neighborhoods.
JUDY ELLIS

Here in Britain, of course, it's Thank Fuck We Got Those Weird Jesus Bastards On The Boat Day
WARREN ELLIS

Bat stood in the open door and said "I am a crime scene unit detective from the New York City Police...
WARREN ELLIS

The easing in economic growth over the past year, together with a ratio of house price to average ea...
MARTIN ELLIS

It's out of 4.
MATT ELLIS

I've been in the business for many years, and we were looking at ways to efficiently bring buyers in...
PETER ELLIS

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
ELLIS PETERS

When the Taliban took over in 1996, the news of their crimes hit the Toronto papers. As a feminist a...
DEBORAH ELLIS

Pain doesn't have a face and pain doesn't have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal...
AUNJANUE ELLIS

I try to read a Kindle Single a week, but I'm getting bad at that. I usually have a few books on...
WARREN ELLIS

It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who ha...
WARREN ELLIS

On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't ki...
WARREN ELLIS

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the dark...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Every artist writes his own autobiography.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the r...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of ...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more diffic...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

There is no Gain in the world: so be it: but neither is there any Loss. There is never any failure t...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and co...
SARAH ELLIS

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the nee...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Boot camp was the first time I got a heavy dose of discipline. It was the best thing that ever happe...
NELSAN ELLIS

I just got fed up. I was ready to blow up. This country is about enforcing our laws and if we don't, we'll have chaos worse than we already do.

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I just got fed up. I was ready to blow up. This country is about enforcing our laws and if we don't, we'll have chaos worse than we already do.

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