Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
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Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled to concentrate to accept conflict and tension to be born everyday to feel a sense of self.Erich Fromm
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
Erich Fromm
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
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The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most
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Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life.
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To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
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