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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It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.

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The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

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Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.

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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

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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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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

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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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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.

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When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.

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