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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Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.

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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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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

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The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears

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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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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

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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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The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane

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