We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic.

The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.

Care is a state in which something does matter; care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros, the source of human tenderness.

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.

To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Whether the meaning of existence is only what we put into life by our own individual fortitude, as Sartre would hold, or whether there is a meaning we need to discover, as Kierkegaard would state, the result is the same: myths are our way of finding this meaning and significance.