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“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.” ― Søren Kierkegaard

“The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.” ― Soren Kierkegaard,

but my egocentricity gives me comfort in my terror that really truly everything will be alright so i escape into it

“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.” ― Erich Fromm

“Once you label me you negate me.” ― Søren Kierkegaard

“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.” - soren kierkegaard

“The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. ” ― Erich Fromm

“Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.” ― Erich Fromm

“If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.” ― Erich Fromm

“The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears.” ― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.” - eric fromm

“To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.” ― Soren Kierkegaard

the most painful state of being is remembering the future particularly the one you’ll never have - soren kierkergaard