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

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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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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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The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

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

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Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

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Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

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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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That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

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