Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am. — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
I've done it with all my films. I always keep an eye on the first time I show it because... I don't… — Ti West Copy Share Image
Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance. — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
our greatest compatibility was in how we complemented each other's neuroses. — Fran Drescher Copy Share Image
As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses. — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior. — David Brin Copy Share Image
So is fighting incompleteness the source of artistic neurosis? I doubt it. At most, this would apply to artists who deal with… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that's not the point. It's developing… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
funny how ready people are to believe that counseling, which even when voluntary takes years to modify garden-variety neuroses, can work wonders… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth… Your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Novelists are people who have discovered that they can dampen their neuroses by writing make-believe. We will keep on doing that no… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important.… — Joanne Woodward Copy Share Image
“[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“The problem is that the desire to change is fundamentally a form of aggression toward yourself. The other problem is that our… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Evelyn Waugh was in error when he said that in New York there was a neurosis in the air which the inhabitants… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I mean to say, really, I am near to developing a neurosis - is there anyone around who doesn't want to study… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
When you are dealing with a serious compulsion or addictive pattern, then by definition self-will, self-discipline, and any other machinations of the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“[Neurotic] pride is both so vulnerable and so precious that it also must be protected in the future. The neurotic may build… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“Both the mentally healthy and the neurotic are driven by the need to find an answer [to the problem of human existence],… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“We do not have to cure every neurosis, we just have to learn how not to be caught by them. This is… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
“The cases described in this section (The Fear of Being) may seem extreme, but I have become convinced that they are not… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“Also the natural sexual functions of establishing an intimate human contact frequently assume greater proportions. This is a well known fact about… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“The declining of responsibility for the self can also be hidden behind a pseudo-objectivity. A patient may make astute observations about himself… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like… — Florence King Copy Share Image
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