Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love - Erich Fromm. View more images...
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? - Erich Fromm. View more images...
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. - Erich Fromm. View more images...
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. View more images...
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. - Erich Fromm. View more images...
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. - Erich Fromm. View more images...
A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul. - Erich Fromm. View more images...
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. - Erich Fromm. View more images...
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. View more images...
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. - Erich Fromm. View more images...
To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. - Erich Fromm. View more images...
Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship. - Erich Fromm. View more images...
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. - Erich Fromm. View more images...
The aim of sadism is to transform a man into a thng, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life-freedom. - Erich Fromm. View more images...
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. - Erich Fromm. View more images...