Quote by Erich Fromm
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves

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. – Erich Fromm

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says I need you because I love you. – Erich Fromm

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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. – Erich Fromm

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Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs. – Jack Johnson

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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. – Langston Hughes

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My new life goes beyond my dreams because my dream was Formula One and I achieved it. Im a driver, I feel like a driver. I have won this race because I am alive. – Maria de Villota

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I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. – Frida Kahlo

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