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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
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
Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.
An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.
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 fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.
The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
