American - Psychologist | March 23, 1900 - March 18, 1980
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
Erich Fromm
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Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
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Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
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Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
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The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
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There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
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The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
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As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
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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.
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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.
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