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.
Albert EllisThe individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for.
Albert EllisTo err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.
Albert EllisWe teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
Albert EllisWhen I was 16 I started keeping a diary in which I recorded my disagreements with the famous philosophers. I didn't insist that they were wrong, that I was right and I had to prevail. I just agreed and disagreed with them. I thought there was a high degree of probability that I was right and some other thinkers were wrong. But I wasn't positive about it.
Albert Ellis