Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds. Erich Fromm More Quotes by Erich Fromm More Quotes From Erich Fromm When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion. Erich Fromm turns people religion The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love. Erich Fromm capacity-to-love growth happiness We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save. Erich Fromm lonely unhappy people 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. Erich Fromm simple character order There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail. Erich Fromm freedom real motivational 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. Erich Fromm discipline practice feelings An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality. Erich Fromm illusion reality 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. Erich Fromm giving-up self mean 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. Erich Fromm mom mother children Integrity simply means not violating one's own identity. Erich Fromm identity integrity mean Intellectuals are hindered on the way to being, by their narcissism. Erich Fromm narcissism way To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness Erich Fromm mourning grief grieving Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to love. Hence the problem to them is how to be loved, how to be lovable. Erich Fromm capacity-to-love problem people The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis. Erich Fromm neurosis fighting children Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. Erich Fromm philosophical love life Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. Erich Fromm birthday character life Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. Erich Fromm marriage family love A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul. Erich Fromm soul dream looks Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you can potentially be. Erich Fromm independent tasks life Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' Erich Fromm love romantic life
