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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
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.
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.
Respect is not fear and awe; it...[is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.Fromm
The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
