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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
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?
Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions.
