We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that's necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

Sigmund Freud

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come worth later in uglier ways.

Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures...There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which causes us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

Carl Jung

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

William James

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.