"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." ~William Penn
"Dictum sapienti sat est - A word to a wise person is sufficient." ~Cicero Ovid Seneca

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7/23/11

Erich Fromm Quotes


"As long as anyone believes that their ideal and purpose is outside them, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, they will go outside themselves and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. They will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found in themselves." ~Erich Fromm

"Education is identical with helping the child reach his potentialities." ~Erich Fromm

"Giving is the highest expression of potency." ~Erich Fromm

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'" ~Erich Fromm

"Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love." ~Erich Fromm

“Love is an activity, not a passive effect; it is ‘standing in’, not a ‘falling for’. In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving.” 
~Erich Fromm, “The Art of Loving”

“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.” – Eric Fromm

"Love is the active concern for the life and growth of that which we love." ~Erich Fromm

"Man is gifted with reason; he has awareness of himself, of his fellow man, of his past, and of the possibilities of his future." ~Erich Fromm

"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve." ~Erich Fromm

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

“Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.”  ~Erich Fromm

"There is only one meaning of life: The act of living itself." ~Erich Fromm

"There is only one reality: the act of feeing ourselves in the process of making choices." ~Erich Fromm


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