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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
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.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
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.
The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
