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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
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.
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
If other people do not understand our behavior-so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being 'asocial' or 'irrational' in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself.
An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.
