Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.

Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer

The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.

Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.

One thing I feel clear about is that it's important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven't really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won't look back upon my forties with regret.

The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.