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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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" The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. "

" In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. "

" Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. "

" Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. "

" What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. "

" To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. "

" Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. "

" Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture. "

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

" Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. "

" Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. "

" One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. "

" There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love. "

" As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask. "

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

" Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world. "

" Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. "

" The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. "

" The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. "

" There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. "

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

" 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. "

" We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. "

" Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought. "

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

" The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. "

" The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man. "

" Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' "

" In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. "