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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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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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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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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? – Erich Fromm

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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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Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it. – Stephen Covey

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I dont want expensive gifts; I dont want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure. – Princess of Wales Diana

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Its an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure. Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best. – Harold W. Dodds

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We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. – George Santayana

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