It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
The scars left from the child’s defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.
There is undoubtedly a difference between people who manipulate other people and people who create things.
The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die.
Man can only know the nagation, never the position of ultimate reality.
The affirmation of one’s own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one’s capacity to love.
There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness than to think, feel, and say what is ours.
Love isn’t something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn’t a feeling, it is a practice.
Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life.
Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive solution.
I believe that man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated from nature, and from the need to find unity and harmony with it.
While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness.
We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent – people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.
Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.
The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own.
It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.
Giving is the highest expression of potency.
Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one’s identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.