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I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. I am still pursued by a neurosis about work inherited from my father. A day where one has not pushed oneself to the limit seems a damaged damaging day, a sinful day. Not so! The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room, not try to be or do anything whatever. – May Sarton	added by JokerGem 17 days ago
The mentally healthy individual is he who habitually calls upon fairly deep levels of vital reserves. An individual whose mind is allowed to become dormant - so that only the surface is disturbed - begins to suffer from‘circulation problems’. Neurosis is the feeling of being cut off from your own powers. – Colin Wilson	added by Normando 2 years ago
France, the Netherlands, Germany -- none of us will be the catalyst for change, we are just too brainwashed, but if you look to our colleagues in central Europe who are free from the pro-Brussels neurosis, you find countries who are willing to stand up to the EU in a way Germany isn't. – Gunnar Beck	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. – Henry Miller	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. – Thomas Szasz	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. – Sigmund Freud	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis. – Abraham Myerson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure. – Joseph Heller	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping. – Kenneth Tynan	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. I am still pursued by a neurosis about work inherited from my father. A day where one has not pushed oneself to the limit seems a damaged damaging day, a sinful day. Not so! The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room, not try to be or do anything whatever.

– May Sarton

added by JokerGem
17 days ago

The mentally healthy individual is he who habitually calls upon fairly deep levels of vital reserves. An individual whose mind is allowed to become dormant - so that only the surface is disturbed - begins to suffer from‘circulation problems’. Neurosis is the feeling of being cut off from your own powers.

– Colin Wilson

added by Normando
2 years ago

France, the Netherlands, Germany -- none of us will be the catalyst for change, we are just too brainwashed, but if you look to our colleagues in central Europe who are free from the pro-Brussels neurosis, you find countries who are willing to stand up to the EU in a way Germany isn't.

– Gunnar Beck

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

– Henry Miller

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

– Thomas Szasz

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

– Sigmund Freud

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis.

– Abraham Myerson

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.

– Joseph Heller

added by anonymous
14 years ago

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

– Kenneth Tynan

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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