Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
From Erich Fromm
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.
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