“Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.”

“Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is...”

“Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.”

“The term schizoid refers to an individual the totality of whose experience is split in two main ways: in the first place, there is a rent in his relation with his world and, in the second, there is...”

“Sanity today appears to rest very largely on a capacity to adapt to the external worldthe interpersonal world, and the realm of human collectivities.As this external human world is almost completel...”

“We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.”

“The anti-psychiatrists held various, sometimes conflicting views but one particular line of reasoning is attributable to all of themthey all pitched their arguments against the power of the psychia...”

“I can't see the logic in medicating a grieving person like there was something wrong with her, and yet it happens all the time... you go to the doctor with symptoms of profound grief and they push ...”

“I can't see the logic in medicating a grieving person like there was something wrong with her, and yet it happens all the time... you go to the doctor with symptoms of profound grief and they push ...”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”