To have or to be. Erich Fromm
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. Robert Louis Stevenson
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. Robert Louis Stevenson
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. Erich Fromm
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. Erich Fromm
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
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. Erich Fromm
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. Noam Chomsky
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King Jr.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. Martin Luther King Jr.
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. Voltaire
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. Albert Einstein
Nothing is more vital for a young person than to select the right addictions. Addictions we approve of are called ‘virtues’. Addiction we disapprove of are called ‘vices’. Jeffrey A. Schaler
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think. John Stuart Mill
When we all think alike, no one is thinking. Walter Lippmann
He begins to die, that quits his desire. George Herbert
To have no desire is to be dead. Thomas Hobbes
Our life is the creation of our mind. Buddha
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover. Ralph Waldo Emerson