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“الحب هو الطريقة الوحيدة التي يدرك بها الانسان كائنا انسانيا آخر في اعمق أغوار شخصيته. فلا يستطيع انسان أن يصبح واعيا كل الوعي بالجوهر العميق لشخص آخر الا اذا أحبه. فبواسطة الفعل الروحي للحب, يتمكن الانسان من رؤية السمات والمعالم الأساسية في الشخص المحبوب, بل ان الانسان يرى أكثر من ذلك, ما هو كامن في الآخر, يرى ما ينبغي أن يتحقق مما لم يتحقق فيه بعد. وعلاوة على ذلك, فان الشخص المحب بحبه انما يمكّن الشخص المحبوب من تحقيق امكاناته. فبواسطة تبصيره ليكون على وعي بما يمكن أن يكون عليه وبما ينبغي أن يصير عليه, انما يجعل مما كان كامنا من هذه الامكانات حقيقة واقعة.”
― فيكتور فرانكل, Man's Search for Meaning

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.”
― Viktor Emil Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.”
― Fromm, Eric, The Art of Loving

“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.”
― Erich Fromm

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
― Erich Fromm

“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”
― Erich Fromm

“Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.”
― Erich Fromm

“كلما أدّبني الدهر أراني نقص عقلي و كلما ازددت علما زادني علما بجهلي”
― الإمام الشافعي

“Theoretically, the computers of the future will be able to do everything human does. Except for two things, they will not be religious and write poetry.”
― Andrei Voznesensky