Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.
The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge to overcome makes us stronger, rather than unjust punishment which should not happen to us, requires faith and courage.
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling – it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.
I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice.
I believe that if an individual is not on the path to transcending his society and seeing in what way it furthers or impedes the development of human potential, he cannot enter into intimate contact with his humanity.
Authority is not a quality one person ‘has,’ in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.