Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.
Albert EllisRead
The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are not, nor probably ever will be, any absolute certainties, and should realize that it is not at all horrible, indeed—such a probabilistic, uncertain world.
Interpretation
Emotional maturity involves accepting uncertainty and unpredictability in life.
This quote by Albert Ellis emphasizes the importance of acknowledging the inherent uncertainties and probabilities of life. Instead of fearing the lack of absolute certainties, a mature individual should embrace this reality, understanding that uncertainty can lead to growth and adaptability rather than despair.
In practice
During a motivational speech about embracing life's uncertainties.
Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.
Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis.
I 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.
If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - about anything. Yes, anything.
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.
Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it teaches people unconditional self-acceptance.
If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed out inner thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotage ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel secure.
I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.
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