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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

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

The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#feel #himself #insecurity #must #person

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#biologically #creates #fixed #given #human

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