Well-being means to be fully born, to become what one potentially is; it means to have the full capacity for joy and sadness or, to put it still differently, to awake from the half-slumber the average man lives in and to be fully awake.
~ Erich Fromm
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I always saw the link on Evboard and I know you host Craig’s site but tonight I actually clicked and I’ve been here for half an hour now. This is a brilliant website. Thanks for putting all these quotes on one site – I shall be coming back here seeking food for thought.
Hey there Spiderfall! Thanks for stopping by. Once in a blue moon, I do post an original (albeit uninteresting post), but it’s a good place for me to post these quotes.