More Quotes by Erich Fromm
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.
When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.
A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism
An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
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.
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love
The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.
Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.
