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" There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself. "

Meaning Of Life

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail. "

" The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have. "

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

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

" Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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