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Quote Left Toward education marriage nervous breakdown, operation, teaching school, and learning to be mad, in a dream—what is this life? Quote Right
Quote Left And so we take a holiday, a vacation, to gain release from this bondage for a space, to stand back from the rush of things and breathe again. But a holiday is a respite, not a cure. The more we need holidays, the more certain it is that the disease has conquered us and not we it. More and more holidays just to get away from it all is a sure sign of a decaying civilization; it was one of the most obvious marks of the breakdown of the Roman empire. It is a symptom that we haven't learned how to live so as to re-create ourselves in our work instead of being sapped by it. A car should always be charging its battery as it runs. If it simply uses up without putting back, it has to go into dock to be recharged. It is not a sign that we are running particularly well if we are constantly needing to go into dock. Quote Right
Quote Left The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must. Its very nobility makes the results of its breakdown doubly horrifying, and it breaks down, as it always will, not by some external agency but because it cannot work. Quote Right
Quote Left The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically. Quote Right
Quote Left There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmas time. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them Quote Right
Quote Left The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity. Quote Right
Quote Left Moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. Quote Right
Quote Left It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin. Quote Right
Quote Left Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. Quote Right
Quote Left I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown. Quote Right
Quote Left From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln. Quote Right
Quote Left One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. Quote Right
Quote Left The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO! Quote Right
Quote Left I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation. Quote Right
Quote Left The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important. Quote Right

Member Quotes About Breakdown

Quote Left Breakdowns sometimes are the reasons to rise up from the ashes and shine. Quote Right
Quote Left Because in spite of all the evidence of a moral breakdown, as prophesied in the Scriptures, most would rather derisively mock and ridicule those who believe an impending doom is coming against unrepentant sinners rather than wake up from their desensitizing gradualism and thoroughly investigate what the Scriptures say Quote Right
Quote Left "A TREE IS BORN WITHOUT BRANCHES,DEVELOPS NEW ONES AND ALONG THE WAY THEY BREAKDOWN,IT GROWS NEW ONES UNTIL IT DIES,THEN THERE WILL BE BRANCHES NO MORE." Quote Right
Quote Left " RISK IS AN INTERGRAL PART OF OUR EXISTENCE:BREAKTHROUGH,WE CELEBRATE;BREAKDOWN, WE GAIN EXPERIENCE" Quote Right

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