1.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.
2.Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
3.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
4. Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
5.In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
6. Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
7. 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.
8. Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
9.Man always dies before he is fully born.
10.Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
11.Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
12We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
13.What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal
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