Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.

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To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.

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The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.

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Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love

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Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

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Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

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If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

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It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.

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As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself.

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A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism

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