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Loving Quotes by Erich Fromm
- While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given…
- Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to love. Hence the…
- Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess. The truth is,…
- Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it.
- Love is the only way of knowledge, which in the act of union answers my quest. In the act of loving, of giving myself, in…
- Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
- ...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our…
- If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to…
- Love of others and love of ourselves are not alternatives. On the contrary, an attitude of love towards themselves will be found in all those…
More Loving Quotes
- If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or… — Honore de Balzac
- The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. — Francis Bacon
- I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think.… — Erykah Badu
- The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker
- To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present… — James A. Baldwin
- Loving Jesus is what's most important to me. I know it sounds hokey, but it's the truth. — Stephen Baldwin
- Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty. — Honore de Balzac
- Do you have to have a reason for loving? — Brigitte Bardot
- I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income… — Ellen Barkin
- I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have… — Matthew Barney
- As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust. — Bob Beauprez