“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.

Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday..

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

The goal of all life is death.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.

None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.

It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions.

Heartbreak does not have to be a meaningless experience. For many, it is a spiritual catalyst – a pathway to awakening to ones deepest desires for love, purpose and connection.

It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.

Small, deliberate actions inspired by your true desires create a life you love.

You’ve got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.

In order to fulfill your true purpose in life, you must give up on your temporary desires.

God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.

Heartbreak does not have to be a meaningless experience. For many, it is a spiritual catalyst – a pathway to awakening to ones deepest desires for love, purpose and connection.

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.