One doesn't do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.

The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.

Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.

To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.

Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind.

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.

All truly great art is propaganda.

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.

Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

What matters is that you never stop trying.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

What is the definition of a friend? Friends are people who make it easier to live the gospel of Jesus Christ.