"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
- Goethe
Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
- Mikhail Gorbachev
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
- Carl Sagan
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
- Elbert Hubbard
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
- Erich Fromm
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.
- Erich Fromm
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
That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.
- Erich Fromm, The Sane Society
Anything you fully do is an alone journey.
- Natalie Goldberg
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.
- Natalie Goldberg
If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.
- Natalie Goldberg
Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you."
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
US (German-born) psychologist
