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Erich Fromm Quotes: While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.
         

While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.


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

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



Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.



It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.

It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.



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.

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.



Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.



Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.



The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.



The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.



The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.

The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.



To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.

To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.





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But the thing I’m finding out is some people don’t really appreciate it when you’r trying to be helpful.



I have a really hard time stepping out of a limousine and confronting a sh*tload of photographers who are all screaming at you, because it's like saying, 'yeah, yeah, here I am!'

I have a really hard time stepping out of a limousine and confronting a sh*tload of photographers who are all screaming at you, because it's like saying, 'yeah, yeah, here I am!'



Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?

Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?



I think people do sci-fi a huge disservice by lumping it as some sort of bizarre subculture genre when I think everybody's lives are impacted by sci-fi at some point.

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