"The disturbed individual who believes himself to be Christ, or to receive messages from God, is something of a cliche in our society. Ever since Sigmund Freud, many people have associated religiosity with neurosis and mental illness."

-- Robert Winston

#Believe Quotes #People Quotes #Neurosis Quotes

“Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.”
“They've offered me every variation on Audrey Horne, none of which were as good or as much fun.”

Source : "Fenn de Siècle" by Joshua Mooney, Movieline (USA), p. 36-40, 80-82, July 1993.
“I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.”
“The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire of discovering the solution of problems which were of a highly practical kind in mathematical science, so in physical science many of the greatest advances that have been made from the beginning of the world to the present time have been made in the earnest desire to turn the knowledge of the properties of matter to some purpose useful to mankind.”
“That's what people who love you do: they hold you and lie. They tell you that you're worthy, that everything will be all right, and they do that even when you both know without a doubt that this is not true, that is it nowhere near the truth.”
“I can't take the theater side out of myself.”
“If negativity starts to cloud your thoughts, get on your hands & knees and pull out the weeds.”
“Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.”

Source : Sir Herbert Edward Read (1964). “Selected writings: poetry and criticism”

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