Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
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Quotes by Erich Fromm
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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Love
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Success
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Wisdom
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Love
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Courage
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
Hope
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.
Love
We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
Hope
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Wisdom
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Wisdom
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
Love
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Love
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Wisdom
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
Life
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
Love
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
Wisdom
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
Wisdom
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Wisdom
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
Wisdom
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Education
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Success
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
Life
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Wisdom
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