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.

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Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of 'unadjusted' individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.

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The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.

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Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love

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Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

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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

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If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

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If other people do not understand our behavior-so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being 'asocial' or 'irrational' in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them.

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Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built

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We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

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