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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
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 affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
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.
The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
