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Oneself Quotes by Erich Fromm
- The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.
- One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no…
- The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real…
- Another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while one's own nation stands for everything that is good and noble. Every action…
- It is essential... that discipline should not be practised like a rule imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it becomes an expression of…
- Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
- 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…
- To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness
- If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means…
- I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone or something outside…
- Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself…
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- Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put… — Kevyn Aucoin
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks… — Marcus Aurelius
- It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be… — David Bailey
- The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others. — James A. Baldwin
- The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery,… — James A. Baldwin
- In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does… — Saint Basil
- Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire
- It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire
- To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing. — Charles Baudelaire
- To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. — Simone de Beauvoir
- An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. — Konrad Adenauer
- Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting… — Pope Benedict XVI