If other people do not understand our behavior-so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being 'asocial' or 'irrational' in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them.

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Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.

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Respect is not fear and awe; it...[is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.Fromm

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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.

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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

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Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

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Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

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The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.

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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

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The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.

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