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1 " The " pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society produces the antidote against such deterioration. When pathological processes become socially patterned, they lose their individual character. On the contrary, the sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology and arranged the means to give satisfactions which fit the pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation, in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society - and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic. "
2 " The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age. "
― Idries Shah , Reflections
3 " Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age. "
4 " Neurotic anxiety, therefore, is that which occurs when the incapacity for coping adequately with threats is not objective but subjective - I.e., is due not to objective weakness but to inner psychological patterns and conflicts which prevent the individual from using his powers. "
― Rollo May , The Meaning of Anxiety
5 " The age of recording is necessarily an age of nostalgia--when was the past so hauntingly accessible?--but its bitterest insight is the incapacity of even the most perfectly captured sound to restore the moment of its first inscribing. That world is no longer there. "
― , Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears
6 " The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. "
― Anaïs Nin
7 " Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. "
