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• A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children, is an active and beloved community volunteer. She remembers to make play dates, her children's clothes fit, she does art projects with them and enjoys all their games.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Love, Mother, Art

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• I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor.

  Joanne Woodward

  Important, Sense Of Humor, Used

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• Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religion, Psychiatry, Universal

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• If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor a priest, I never censor what others do. Neither a philospher nor a psychiatrist, I never bother trying to analyze or resolve my fears and neuroses.

  Federico Fellini

  People, Judging, Hypocrisy

  "I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon". Book edited by Damian Pettigrew, December 1, 2003.

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• Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.

  Carl Jung

  Pain, Natural, Products

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• if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature, it goes against God's laws, for in all the world's woods and forests he did not create a single leaf the same as another.

  Paulo Coelho

  Law, Psychosis, Woods

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• Everything but happiness is neurosis.

  Anais Nin

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, February 15, 1936.

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• Every person must live the inner life in one form or another. Consciously or unconsciously, voluntarily or involuntarily, the inner world will claim us and exact its dues. If we go to that realm consciously, it is by our inner work: our prayers, meditations, dream work, ceremonies, and Active Imagination. If we try to ignore the inner world, as most of us do, the unconscious will find its way into our lives through pathology: our psychosomatic symptoms, compulsions, depressions, and neuroses.

  Robert A. Johnson

  Dream, Prayer, Imagination

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• It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Religion, Obsessive Compulsive

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• But man has other needs as well: emotional needs. These, too, are few, but every bit as important as his physical requirements, yet not so simple. If they aren't met, they can be as devastating as physical hunger, as uncomfortable as a lack of shelter, as incapacitating as thirst. The frustration, isolation and anxiety brought about by unmet emotional needs can, like physical privation, produce death or a degree of living death - neurosis and psychosis.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Men, Emotional, Frustration

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that "adjustment" to a sick and insane environment is of itself not "health" but sickness and insanity.

  James Agee

  Education, Sick, Insanity

  James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.274, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. All my works in pastels are the products of obsessional neurosis and are therefore inextricably connected to my disease. I create pieces even when I don’t see hallucinations, though.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Art, Sculpture, Pieces

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• We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous effort that we can detach ourselves from this burden. If it comes to a neurosis, we invariably have to deal with a considerably intensified shadow.

  Carl Jung

  Past, Men, Personality

  "The Collected Works".

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• Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Religious, Humility

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.73, Macmillan

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• Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness: "Oh well," we smile, "it's one of his funny days."

  Fleur Adcock

  Littles, Way, Oddness

  Fleur Adcock (2000). “Poems 1960-2000”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

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• Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis.

  Albert Ellis

  Elements, World, Failing

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• There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.

  Anais Nin

  Suffering, Doe, Faces

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• New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn't have to pursue "the real thing."

  Umberto Eco

  Memories, Real, Past

  Umberto Eco (2014). “Travels in Hyperreality”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity

  Sigmund Freud

  Humanity, Universal

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

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Psychosis, Sin, Unnecessary

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.106, Hachette UK

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• You don't know the things in your childhood that influence you. You can't possibly know them. People today try to analyze the early environment and the reasons for something that happened, but if you look at children of the same family -- children who have identical parents, go to identical schools, have an almost identical upbringing, and yet who have totally different experiences and neuroses -- you realize that what influences the children is not so much the obvious externals as their emotional experiences. Of course any psychiatrist knows that.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Children, School, Emotional

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• In any discussion of religion and personality integration the question is not whether religion itself makes for health or neurosis, but what kind of religion and how is it used? Freud was in error when he held that religion is per se a compulsion neurosis. Some religion is and some is not.

  Rollo May

  Errors, Personality, Kind

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.144, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Although the patriarchal ego prides itself on being reasonable, the twentieth century has been anything but the Age of Reason. In our collective neurosis, we have raped the earth, disrupted the delicate balance of nature, and created phallic missiles of mass destruction.

  Marion Woodman

  Pride, Mass Destruction, Ego

  "Dancing in the Flames". Book by Marion Woodman, 1996.

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• I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing foolish in loving anyone. Thinking you'll be loved in return is what's foolish.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Love, Thinking, Two

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• Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

  Tom Robbins

  Civilization, Normality

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.257, Bantam

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