Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.
Albert EllisThe attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.
Albert EllisIf 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 EllisI 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.
Albert Ellis