Ishmael Abraham

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“The line between 'normal' and 'neurotic' begins to appear when any activity becomes compulsive - that is, when the person feels pushed to perform the act because it habitually allays his anxiety rather than because of any intrinsic wish to perform the act.”
― Rollo May, The Meaning of Anxiety

tags: anxiety, neurotic, normal

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“سأصبر حتى يعجز الصبر عن صبري
سأصبر حتى ينظر الرحمن في أمري
سأصبر حتى يعلم الصبر
أني صبرت على شئٍ أمرّ من الصبر”
― علي بن أبي طالب

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“So, if they hold aloof from you and wage not war against you and offer you peace, Allah alloweth you no way against them” (Qur’an 4:90).”
― Denise A. Spellberg, Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders

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“In 1969 America put the man on the moon.
In 2016 America put the man in the women's bathroom.”
― Celso Cukierkorn

tags: bathroom, politics, transgender

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“One means of allaying anxiety is frantic activity. The anxiety arising out of the dilemma of powerlessness in the face of suprapersonal economic forces on one hand, but theoretical belief in the efficacy of individual effort on the other, was symptomized partly by excessive activism.”
― Rollo May, The Meaning of Anxiety

tags: anxiety

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