Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all. - Rollo May

This book is not a substitute for psychotherapy. Nor is it a self-help book in the sense that it promises cheap and easy cures overnight. But in another worthy and profound sense every good book is a self-help book — it helps the reader, through seeing himself and his own experiences reflected in the book, to gain new light on his own problems of personal integration.

When we "fall" in love, as the expressive verb puts it, the world shakes and changes around us, not only in the way it looks but in our whole experience of what we are doing in the world. Generally, the shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects … Love is the answer, we sing. … our Western culture seems to be engaged in a romantic — albeit desperate — conspiracy to enforce the illusion that that is all there is to eros.

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.