“If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride”

“There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.”

“The fact that compulsive drives for success will arise only in a competitive culture does not make them any less neurotic.”

“Also the natural sexual functions of establishing an intimate human contact frequently assume greater proportions. This is a well known fact about detached people for whom sexuality may be the only...”

“The declining of responsibility for the self can also be hidden behind a pseudo-objectivity. A patient may make astute observations about himself and give a fairly accurate report of what he dislik...”

“It is naturally a sign of inner liberation when a patient can squarely recognize his difficulties and take them with a grain of humor. But some patients at the beginning of analysis make incessant ...”

“Was there even such a thing as normall? People had terrible things behing their faces sometimes. He knew that now.”

“Normalcy was declared. (Normalcy was always a declaration.)”

“The culture were live in ripples through our daily lives, sending messages about what is considered "normal" and healthy by society.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“Don't Run For Success, Practice Perfection.”

“Spontaneity is great when the opportunity is there, but what I'm really saying is you need to trust yourself. Instead of checking and rechecking your camera and the lighting and everything else, ju...”

“What she aspired to was a kind of delirious perfection. What Lilia wanted was to travel, but not only that; she wanted to be a citizen of everywhere, free-wheeling and capable of instant flight.”