Albert Ellis Acceptance Quotations

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.

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.

Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.

The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.