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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
That millions of people share the same forms 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.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
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.
