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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

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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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Love
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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind – not the fiend or the sadist. – Erich Fromm

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power
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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. Mathew 7:13-14 – Bible

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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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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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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. Isaiah 48:10 – Bible

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Adversity

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That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty. – Ken Thompson

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I always knew I wanted kids, but when my mom passed away I was like, I want a bunch of kids. I want three kids or four kids, and I want to have that relationship again. I cant bring my mom back, but I can have children. – Mindy Kaling

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