If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.

Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.

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

He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)

If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.

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

The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.