What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
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The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
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Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
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Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled to concentrate to accept conflict and tension to be born everyday to feel a sense of self.
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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.
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Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
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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.
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Modern man thinks he loses something time when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it.
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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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