Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
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Erich Fromm
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Escape from Freedom
Greatness and Limitations of Freud's Thought
Love, Sexuality and Matriarchy: About Gender
Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics
On Disobedience: Why Freedom Means Saying No to Power
Psychoanalysis and Religion
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
The Art of Being
The Art of Loving
The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology
The Sane Society
To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
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Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
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.
Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEINGHAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even peopleBEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging, sharing with other people
There is only one meaning of life the act of living itself.
Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.
I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is they would say if they are honest that it is a big department store with new things every week - all the money to buy them and maybe a little more than the neighbours.
Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man is by necessity uncertain.
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.
Modern man thinks he loses something-time-when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains- except kill it.
Immature love says "I love you because I need you." Mature love says "I need you because I love you."
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
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.
If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself since I am a human being too.
Man absolutely cannot live by himself.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Giving is the highest expression of potency.
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.