Quote by Erich Fromm
The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone. – Erich Fromm

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The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mothers side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent. – Erich Fromm

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Love
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Mans main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. – Erich Fromm

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If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. – Erich Fromm

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America Im putting my queer shoulder to the wheel. – Allen Ginsberg

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One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void. – Jean Rostand

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Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else. – Thomas Merton

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By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning. – Lao-Tzu

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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. – Plato

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Anger tears me up inside… My own… or anyone elses. – Betty White

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I am my own heaven and hell! – J.C.F. von Schiller

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light. – Jean Baudrillard

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