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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
People do not see that the main question is not : "Am I loved?" which is to a large extent the question : "Am I approved of? Am I protected? Am I admired?" The main question is: "Can I love?
The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.
If 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.
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.
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
