Famous quotes by Psychologists

"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 Ellis, Psychologist

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

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

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

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

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"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, Psychologist

"The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress"

Helene Deutsch, Psychologist

"Forgiveness means letting go of the past"

Gerald Jampolsky, Psychologist

"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge"

Gerald Jampolsky, Psychologist

"Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions"

Gerald Jampolsky, Psychologist

"I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge"

Gerald Jampolsky, Psychologist

"The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"In the early days of Christianity, the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes, which shocked austere moralists"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"At the present day, the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others"

Gerald Jampolsky, Psychologist

"Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind"

Gerald Jampolsky, Psychologist

"The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls"

Gerald Jampolsky, Psychologist

"There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"Through our willingness to help others, we can learn to be happy rather than depressed"

Gerald Jampolsky, Psychologist

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