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Overcoming Quotes by Erich Fromm
- Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with…
- 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…
- Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self…
- To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge to overcome makes us stronger, rather than unjust punishment which should not happen…
- Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty....…
- Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.
- 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.
- The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome…
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- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome. — Margaret Atwood
- The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. — Richard Bach
- Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. — Francis Bacon
- I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That… — Kathleen Battle
- Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number… — Evan Bayh
- In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid. — Simone de Beauvoir
- Oprah is wildly successful, and she's a brilliant businesswoman. She's also somebody who's overcome a ton of demons in her own life,… — Glenn Beck
- I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me. — Ludwig van Beethoven
- Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open. — Alexander Graham Bell