"There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers." ― Erich Fromm Topic(s): Power More From Erich Fromm "Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world." "In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead." "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." More In Power "Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty."― Simone Weil "Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we’re here: We’re here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature."― Rainn Wilson "Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron – namely, that he is a blockhead."― Ambrose Bierce