If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
Anthony Storr
The word?jealousy? Is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the distinction worth preserving. Jealousy is predominantly concerned with the fear of loss of something one possesses, envy with the wish to own something another possesses
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Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions.<br/>i.e. When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion.
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It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.
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Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship / a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.
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The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.
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With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.
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I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you.
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I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.
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Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.
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