Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.
Albert EllisRead
Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Neurosis refers to emotional distress that is often trivialized as mere complaining or whining.
In this quote, Albert Ellis uses humor to highlight the tendency of people to exaggerate their emotional struggles, labeling them as neurosis when they may simply be common complaints. By framing neurosis in this light, he encourages individuals to recognize the often mundane nature of their emotional turmoil and perhaps approach it with a lighter perspective.
Themes
NeurosisWhiningHumorEmotionalComplaining
In practice
Example use cases
During a mental health seminar, this quote could be used to lighten the mood while discussing emotional issues.
More from Albert Ellis
All quotes βReligious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis.
Albert EllisRead
I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
Albert EllisRead
If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - about anything. Yes, anything.
Albert EllisRead
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert EllisRead
Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it teaches people unconditional self-acceptance.
Albert EllisRead
Similar quotes
All the fun is in how you say a thing.
Robert FrostRead
It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
Shirley MaclaineRead
And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.
John FrankenheimerRead
A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
George OrwellRead
When an audience is laughing with a character, they make themselves so vulnerable, and they open up. They expose their heart the moment they're laughing, because they're relaxed and they're disarmed.
Phoebe Waller-BridgeRead
Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
Samuel GoldwynRead