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Self Quotes by Erich Fromm
- 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…
- Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess. The truth is,…
- There is no word in our language which has been so much misused and prostituted as the word love. It has been preached by those…
- 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....…
- Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
- We forget that, although each of the liberties which have been won must be defended with utmost vigour, the problem of freedom is not only…
- If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to…
- Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.
- Socialism is the abolition of human self-alienation, the return of man as a real human being.
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- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. — Dalai Lama
- Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges,… — Richard G. Scott
- The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that… — C.S. Lewis
- Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- If there is any aim to achieve by all of us as a human being, it is to be so strong that… — Senoraroy
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