The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
From Erich Fromm
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
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