Erich Fromm

psychoanalyst, provocateur, political activist, rebel, sociologist, humanist, lover

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"Love requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice."

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"Love is activity, not a passive affect; it is 'standing in', not a 'falling for'."

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"In the experience of love lies the only answer to being human, lies sanity."

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"Without love, humanity could not exist for a day." - The Art of Loving

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"There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers, by living productively."

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"#Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love."

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"That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane."

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"#Love is a decision, it's a judgment, it's a promise. If it were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love forever."

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"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."

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"All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any individual."

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"The more the drive toward life is thwarted, the stronger is the drive toward destruction."

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"Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it's a deprivation but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness."

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"Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much."

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"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself."

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"If a person loves only 1 other person & is indifferent to all others, his love is'nt love but symbiotic attachment or an enlarged egotism."

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"To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable."

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"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."

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"Negative or bad is everything that strangles life and paralyzes man's activeness."

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"Valuable or good is all that which contributes to the greater unfolding of man's specific faculties and furthers life."