Erich Fromm's Quote - Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves

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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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail. – Erich Fromm

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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. – Erich Fromm

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There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love. – Erich Fromm

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Dreams From My Father reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after theyre dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader. – Jonathan Raban

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When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star – it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned. – Azar Nafisi

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. – Henry David Thoreau

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Everybodys a dreamer. – John Lithgow

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When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. – William Shakespeare, King Lear

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Curmudgeonesque

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. – Wilson Mizner

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The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve. – Dean Acheson

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