#is

You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time. ↗

— Fred Frith

#dialogue #discovering #every #every time #everything

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#either #incapable #loving #others #persons

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#effort #endless #ever #exhausts #greed

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#existence #his #man #only #own

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#birth #effort #give #himself #his

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#acquired #deserved #love #love is #mother

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

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

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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