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.'
Author: Erich Fromm
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.
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.
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities so the social process requires standardization of man and this standardization is called equality.
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities so the social process requires standardization of man and this standardization is called equality.
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
We all dream we do not understand our dreams yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds strange at least by comparison with the logical purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
We all dream we do not understand our dreams yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds strange at least by comparison with the logical purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
Man always dies before he is fully born.
Man always dies before he is fully born.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.