One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
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If - and whenever - we truly believe that the world will fall apart without us, we probably need to get off our high horse, or out of our small mind, or both.
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