The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die.
Erich FrommIf other people do not understand our behavior-so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being 'asocial' or 'irrational' in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them.
Erich FrommThe duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.
Erich Fromm