The neurotic is unable to tolerate not only his own weaknesses, but also his own strengths.
Karen Horney
German-American psychoanalyst who challenged Freudian orthodoxy and developed a theory of neurosis rooted in social conditions. Founded the American Institute for Psychoanalysis in 1941.
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If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride.
Worry is the only emotion which does not lead to action.
Self-hate is the most insidious and the most difficult to discover of all the factors that go into the making of a neurosis.