Differences Quote by Natalie Goldberg

Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom.

— Pema Chodron

“The problem is that the desire to change is fundamentally a form of aggression toward yourself. The other problem is that our hang-ups, unfortunately…

— Pema Chodron

The more neurosis the more wisdom.

— Pema Chodron

This is a government which is proposing to put at risk our manufacturing industry, to penalise struggling families, to make a tough situation worse…

— Tony Abbott

Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us. While each…

— Andrew Solomon

And I could see his internal struggle become an all out war. "It wouldn't have made a difference. Not with Adrian involved," he said……

— Richelle Mead

“Crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, at high speed, her eyes fixed on the road, Abigail asked, a little loudly above the hum, 'Do you…

— Lindsay Hill

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“The fact that compulsive drives for success will arise only in a competitive culture does not make them any less neurotic.”

— Karen Horney

When you are dealing with a serious compulsion or addictive pattern, then by definition self-will, self-discipline, and any other machinations of the conscious mind…

— Marianne Williamson

And I think for me theres a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the…

— Liev Schreiber

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.

— Carl Jung