Quote by Erich Fromm
Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that

Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him. – 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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Love
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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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Attachment
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Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. – Erich Fromm

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The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together. – Havelock Ellis

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To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others. – Buddha

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Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer. – Elbert Hubbard

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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair. – André Gide, The Counterfeiters, 1925

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Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each others speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in. – H. L. Mencken

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Im learning, but Im getting better at it because Im learning how to hear God in worship. – Michael W. Smith

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All is amiss. Love is dying, faiths defying, hearts denying. – Richard Barnfield

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