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Love Quotes by Erich Fromm

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Erich Fromm describes love as an active power that breaks walls and brings people together. He says love needs care, responsibility, respect, and the freedom to be alone before it can grow. His thoughts also point out that love is a faculty we develop, not just a feeling we receive.

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I need you because I love you.

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Love is an act of faith.

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Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.

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Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself.

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You have to stop in order to change direction.

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You have to stop to change direction.

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In times of change, learners inherit the earth

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Love is a power which produces love.

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Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

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Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

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One cannot fall in love, really; one has to be in love.

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Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life.

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To be concentrated means to live fully in the present.

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Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead.

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“Only in the love of those who do not serve a purpose, love begins to unfold.”

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'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

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If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own two feet, he or she may be a…

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For [Karl] Marx it is socialist society which realizes "concretely" the religious principles of equality, brotherly love, and freedom.

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“Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love. Where this active concern is lacking,…

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If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic…

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Love is not something your heart falls into, but something that picks it up and sets it soaring.

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Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with -…

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I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.

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Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

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Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more…

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Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is…

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Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love."…

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“Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a “standing in,” not a “falling for.” In the most general way,…

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“Erotic love, if it is love, has one premise. That I love from the essence of my being—and experience the other person…

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The narcissistic, the domineering, the possessive woman can succeed in being a "loving" mother as long as the child is small. Only…

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“The assumption that the problem of love is the problem of an object , not the problem of a faculty . People…

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Love is the productive form of relatedness to others and to oneself. It implies responsibility, care, respect. If it isn't productive and…

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“The child starts out by being attached to his mother as "the ground of all being." He feels helpless and needs the…

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Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess.…

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Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there…

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“Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved , rather than that of loving , of one's…

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“Frequently, and not only in the popular usage, sadomasochism is confounded with love. Masochistic phenomena, especially, are looked upon as expressions of…

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“Not so much because many occupations would not permit of a loving attitude, but because the spirit of a production-centered, commodity-greedy society…

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“There is only one passion which satisfies man’s need to unite himself with the world, and to acquire at the same time…

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Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced…

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“Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING HAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even people BEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging,…

“Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations,…

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.

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“Perhaps most trivial talk is a need to talk about oneself; hence, the never-ending subject of health and sickness, children, travel, successes, what one…