Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.

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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

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Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built

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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

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Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love

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Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of 'unadjusted' individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.

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The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

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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.

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Respect is not fear and awe; it...[is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.Fromm

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The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.

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