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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one’s own self.
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.