I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.

Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.

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

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!

Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer

What? 'Borderline patients play games'? That what you said? Ernest, you'll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That's exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis. There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can't treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)

To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.