Top 72 Quotes About Fromm Love
#1. 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
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#3. Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world based on human solidarity and justice, only when he can feel rooted in the experience of universal brotherliness, will he have tr
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#4. Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.
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#6. Beyond the element of giving, the active characteristic of love becomes evident in the fact that it always implies certain basic elements, common to all forms of love. These are care, responsability, respect and knowledge
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#7. Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.
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#8. God explains to Jonah that the essence of love is to "labor" for something and "to make something grow,
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#9. Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead.
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#10. 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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#11. 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 who are capable of loving others.
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#12. Erotic love, if it is love, has one premise. That I love from the essence of my being - and experience the other person in the essence of his or her being. In essence, all human beings are identical. We are all part of One; we are One.
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#13. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
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#14. Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.
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#15. 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
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#16. The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.
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#17. While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.
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#19. I believe that none can "save" his fellow man by making a choice for him. To help him, he can indicate the possible alternatives, with sincerity and love, without being sentimental and
without illusion.
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#20. Automatons cannot love; they can exchange their "personality packages" and hope for a fair bargain.
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#21. In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
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#22. To be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, always leaves doubt; maybe I did not please the person whom I want to love me, maybe this, or that - there is always a fear that love could disappear.
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#23. It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
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#24. Mother's love always peace as it not to be acquired nor deserved.
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#25. 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.
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#26. To love one person productively means to be related to his human core, to him as representing mankind. Love for one individual, in so far as it is divorced from love for man, can refer only to the superficial and to the accidental; of necessity it remains shallow.
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#27. Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.
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#28. Love is hot a higher power which descends upon mn nor a duty which is imposed upon him; it is his own power by which he relates himself to the world and makes it truly his.
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#29. I believe that the experience of love is the most human and humanizing act that it is given to man to enjoy and that it, like reason, makes no sense if conceived in a partial way.
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#30. Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.
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#31. The assumption that the problem of love is the problem of an object , not the problem of a faculty . People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by- is difficult.
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#32. If you love without calling forth love, that is, if your love as such does not produce love, if by means of an expression of life as a loving person you do not make of yourself a loved person, then your love is impotent, a misfortune.
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#33. Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.
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#34. Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
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#35. 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 the act of penetrating the other person, I find myself, I discover myself, I discover us both, I discover man.
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#36. People do not see that the main question is not : "Am I loved?" which is to a large extent the question : "Am I approved of? Am I protected? Am I admired?" The main question is: "Can I love?
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#37. 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.
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#38. Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.
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#39. We have faith in the potentialities of others, of ourselves, and of mankind because, and only to the degree to which, we have experienced the growth of our own potentialities, the reality of growth in ourselves, the strength of our own power of reason and love.
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#40. 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.
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#41. 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.
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#42. I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself.
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#43. If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.
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#44. How should a man caught in this net of routine not forget that he is a man, a unique individual, one who is given only this one chance of living, with hopes and disappointments, with sorrow and fear, with the longing for love and the dread of the nothing and of separateness?
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#45. The only way of full knowledge lies in the act of love; this act transcends thought, it transcends words. It is the daring plunge into the experience of union.
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#46. If an individual is able to love productively, he loves himself, too; if he can love only others, he cannot love at all.
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#47. If we love our fellow humans, we cannot limit our insight and our love only to others as individuals ... We have to be political people, I would even say passionately involved political people, each of us in the way that best suits our own temperaments, our working lives, and our own capabilities.
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#48. Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a "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.
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#49. Not that people think that love is not important. They are starved for it; they watch endless numbers of films about happy and unhappy love stories, they listen to hundreds of trashy songs about love - yet hardly anyone thinks that there is anything that needs to be learned about love. This
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#50. 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.
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#51. Love is active penetration of the other person, in which my desire to know is stilled by union. In the act of fusion I know you, I know myself, I know everybody - and I "know" nothing.
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#52. Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself.
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#53. 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.
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#54. Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life
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#55. I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.
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#56. If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own two feet, he or she may be a life saver, but the relationship is not one of love.
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#57. The mature response to the problem of existence is love.
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#58. There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
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#59. Only in the love of those who do not serve a purpose, love begins to unfold.
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#60. People have committed suicide because of their failure to realize the passions for love , power , fame , revenge . Cases of suicide because of a lack of sexual satisfaction are virtually nonexistent.
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#61. The ultimate choice for a man, in as much as he is given to transcend himself, is to create or destroy, to love or to hate.
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#62. Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.
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#63. The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life.
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#64. [T}he sexual act without love never bridges the gap between two human beings, except momentarily.
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#65. The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love
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#66. Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
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#67. Love is the productive form of relatedness to others and to oneself. It implies responsibility, care, respect. If it isn't productive and respectful, it isn't love, but only fear masquerading as love.
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#68. In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only tolerate, she must wish and support the child's separation.
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#69. True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they've gotta match.
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#70. Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
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#71. Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.
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#72. Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our
insanity. 'Patriotism' is its cult ... 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.
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