Erich Fromm, The Art Of Loving Quotes
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.
People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.
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 by the simple presence of a mature, loving person.
Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love. Where this active concern is lacking, there is no love.
Psychology as a science has its limitations, and, as the logical consequence of theology is mysticism, so the ultimate consequence of psychology is love.
To be concentrated means to live fully in the present, in the here and now, and not to think of the next thing to be done, while I am doing something right now.
Only in the love of those who do not serve a purpose, love begins to unfold.
What a person considers the minimal necessities depends as much on his character as it depends on his actual possessions.
The only way in which the world can be grasped ultimately lies, not in thought, but in the act, in the experience of oneness.
