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Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.

Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.

Erich Fromm
Sadness, What Matters, Doe
Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

Erich Fromm
Sadness, Compassion, Curiosity
ABC TV, May 25, 1958.

Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there is harmony or conflict; joy or sadness, is secondary to the fundamental fact that two people experience themselves from the essence of their existence, that they are only one with each other by being one with themselves, rather than by fleeing from themselves.

Erich Fromm
Moving, Sadness, Essence
Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.105, Open Road Media

Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for deep emotional experiences, for the joy and sadness that accompany them.

Erich Fromm
Religious, Sadness, Men

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