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The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to b

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. – 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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What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. – Erich Fromm

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Attack is the best form of defense. – Proverb

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Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. – James F. Byrnes

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No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words cant dishearten it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. – Henry de Bracton

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