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As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself.
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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
People do not see that the main question is not : "Am I loved?" which is to a large extent the question : "Am I approved of? Am I protected? Am I admired?" The main question is: "Can I love?
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism
The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
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
