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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty.... Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.
Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.
