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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
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.
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
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.
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
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
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
