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Erich Fromm Quotes
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Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers, by living productively.
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.
In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities to feed the hatred against the enemy.
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of giving a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Man can be defined as the animal that can say "I," that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.
Love Quote
Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.
Motivational Quote
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
Friendship Quote
Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
Life Quote
Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
Truth Quote
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
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