Favourite Quotations (Moderator: Frederique)

You are what your deep driving desire is. As your desire, so is your will. As your will, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.

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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

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Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go but rather learning to start over.

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All of my nobodiness and his somebodiness collided.

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There are three sorts of people: those who are alive, those who are dead, and those who are at sea → Il y a trois sortes d'hommes : les vivants, les morts, et ceux qui vont en mer

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It's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men

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Je ne crains pas la mort. C'est l'enjeu de la vie. → I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.

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A man is known by the silence he keeps

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I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy—I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection. I hate to be love's executioner.

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I'm afraid I can't explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see?

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Ποτέ δεν πρέπει να φοβόμαστε να είμαστε ένα σημάδι αντίφασης στον κόσμο

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Μόνο αν καταλάβουμε ότι είμαστε διαφορετικοί εμείς οι ίδιοι θα αποδεχθούμε τους γύρω μας και θα τους προσφέρουμε ισότητα ευκαιριών αποκλειστικά βάσει αξιοκρατικών κριτηρίων.

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Sigmund Freud was once asked what people need in order to be able to live a full and happy life. His reply was three words: “Lieben und arbeiten.” Love and work.

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For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

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Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.

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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

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He knows death to the bone—Man has created death.

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