#ten

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

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

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

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds. ↗

— Yann Martel

#fix #i #minds #movies #people

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#considering #exchange #expect #favorable #get

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. ↗

— Robert Frost

#had #i #lover #me #my own

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. ↗

— Robert Frost

#because #best #cream #homogenized #i

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. ↗

— Robert Frost

#free #free verse #like #net #playing

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. ↗

— Robert Frost

#carried #few #george #george washington #history

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down. ↗