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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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“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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“How strange and foolish is man. He loses his health in gaining wealth. Then, to regain his health he wastes his wealth. He ruins his present while worrying about his future, but weeps in the future by recalling his past. He lives as though death shall never come to him, but dies in a way as if he were never born”
― Imam Ali as

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