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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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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Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

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The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.

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An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

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

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Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.

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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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