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What a person considers the minimal necessities depends as much on his character as it depends on his actual possessions.

What a person considers the minimal necessities depends as much on his character as it depends on his actual possessions.
– Erich Fromm

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  2. Once a person has become detached from his possessions, his customary duties, his moments of solitude, where is he? What is he? – Patricia Highsmith
  3. Quality depends on kindness. Beauty depends on simplicity. Joy depends on generosity. – Debasish Mridha
  4. Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  5. For despite what some people say, love is not only a sweet falling bound to come and quickly go away. – Erich Fromm
  6. Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. – Erich Fromm
  7. The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. – Erich Fromm
  8. That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane. – Erich Fromm
  9. Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress in physics and medicine. – Erich Fromm
  10. Only in the love of those who do not serve a purpose, love begins to unfold. – Erich Fromm
  11. People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love – or to be loved by – is difficult. – Erich Fromm
  12. The sexual act without love never bridges the gap between two human beings, except momentarily.. – Erich Fromm
  13. The sexual act without love never bridges the gap between two human beings, except momentarily. – Erich Fromm
  14. To feel completely alone and isolated leads to mental disintegration just as physical starvation leads to death. – Erich Fromm
  15. They were more free, but they were more alone. – Erich Fromm
  16. A society whose members are helpless need idols. – Erich Fromm
  17. The supremacy of cerebral, manipulative thinking goes together with an atrophy of emotional life. – Erich Fromm
  18. They have their big, ever-changing egos, but none has a self, a core, a sense of identity. – Erich Fromm
  19. The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life. – Erich Fromm
  20. Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. – Erich Fromm
  21. Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint. – Erich Fromm
  22. We are what we do. – Erich Fromm
  23. The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things. – Erich Fromm
  24. The only way in which the world can be grasped ultimately lies, not in thought, but in the act, in the experience of oneness. – Erich Fromm
  25. Love is a power which produces love. – Erich Fromm
  26. Today we take for granted that we are we. Yet the doubt about ourselves still exists, or has even grown. – Erich Fromm
  27. Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity. – Erich Fromm
  28. Value of life depends not on your possessions, but on your donation. – Debasish Mridha
  29. Happiness depends on perception, not on possessions. – Debasish Mridha
  30. The nature of the universe probably depends heavily on who is the actual protagonist. Lately I’ve been suspecting it’s one of my cats. – Wil McCarthy
  31. We spend most of the time justifying the situation and not finding the real problem thus leaving minimal chance of solutions. – Unarine Ramaru
  32. Marriage is the ultimate solitude with minimal privacy. – Nelson Rodrigues
  33. You can’t achieve major goals with minimal work. – Rob Liano
  34. Bad people take minimal time to coincide their objectives, but good people take for ever to put faith in each others intents. – Sandeep Sahajpal
  35. What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are. – CS Lewis
  36. God always protects what He considers to be a blessing for a person. – Sunday Adelaja
  37. Your judgments about another person say more about your own character than the character of the person you’re pointing a finger at. – Alaric Hutchinson
  38. Sadly, when a person’s possessions distract him from his purpose, he usually ends up losing both. – Orrin Woodward
  39. The only thing you can take with you when you die is what you are. Character counts more than possessions. – Orrin Woodward
  40. Don’t judge a person by how important he is or how big he is. Judge a person by the strength of his character or size of his heart. – Glad Munaiseche

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