The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.
You feel good, you feel bad, and these feelings are bubbling from your own unconsciousness, from your own past. Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can make you happy.
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
Shame is a soul eating emotion.
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.