Quote by Erich Fromm
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breat

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. – Erich Fromm

Other quotes by Erich Fromm

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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Love
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Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of ones own self. – Erich Fromm

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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. – Erich Fromm

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The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage. – Aeschylus, The Suppliant Maidens

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Your heart has been sore wounded too. Dear Light, love shall cherish you, till you again look on life with happy eyes. – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1909

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Would you touch a nettle without being stung by it? take hold of it stoutly. Do the same to other annoyances, and hardly will any thing annoy you. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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