If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.

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

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.

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

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

Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?

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)