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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

#busy #communications #deal #dreams #great

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#act #awake #comparison #doings #dream

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. ↗

— Christopher Fry

#despair #escape #faith #into #narrow

Many musicians will say they don't care about the money yet they must commit themselves to appear at given times and places, and to produce what sells, whether they believe in it or not. It depends on contracts. ↗

— Lynette Fromme

#appear #believe #care #commit #contracts

I get a special joy in knowing people feel comfortable if they see me in Wal-Mart or in a no-frills section trying to get something on a discount. ↗

— Angie Stone

#discount #feel #get #i #joy

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#birth #born #desperate #every #hope

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#embrace #faculty #human #incompatible #just

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty. ↗

— Steve Martin

#big business #business #comedy #may #pretty

My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He told me never to come back, and that was all the severance it took. ↗

— Lynette Fromme

#back #become #come #difference #enraged

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. ↗

— Robert Frost

#comfortably #enough #fits #freedom #society