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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.
Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
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.
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
