Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
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Integrity simple means not violating one's own identity.Erich Fromm
That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.
Erich Fromm
If I am what I have and what I have is lost, who then am I.
Erich Fromm
Man always dies before he is fully born.
Erich Fromm
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
Erich Fromm
The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most
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