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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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If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
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
An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.
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.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.
When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.
People do not see that the main question is not : "Am I loved?" which is to a large extent the question : "Am I approved of? Am I protected? Am I admired?" The main question is: "Can I love?