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  • Equality today means ‘sameness’, rather than ‘oneness’.

    Mean   Oneness   Today  
    Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.21, Open Road Media
  • Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with others; love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits him to be himself, to retain his integrity.

    Love   Wall   Integrity  
    ERICH FROMM (1956). “THE ART OF LOVING”
  • The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.14, Open Road Media
  • There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.235, Routledge
  • Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.29, Open Road Media
  • 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.

    Love   Romantic   Judging  
    Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.61, Open Road Media
  • Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.113, Open Road Media
  • Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

    Love   Life   Meaningful  
    "Time Spent in a Psych Ward" by Erin Nugent, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2015.
  • 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.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.10, Open Road Media
  • Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

    Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.105, Open Road Media
  • 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 problem to them is how to be loved, how to be lovable.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.7, Open Road Media
  • Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

    Love   Life   Romantic  
    Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.46, Open Road Media
  • To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.34, Open Road Media
  • Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

    Equality   Men   History  
    Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.21, Open Road Media
  • Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

    Art   Caring   Volunteer  
  • What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.

    Sex   Mean   People  
    Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.2, A&C Black
  • In the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.29, Open Road Media
  • Literature has neglected the old and their emotions. The novelists never told us that in love, as in other matters, the young are just beginners and that the art of loving matures with age and experience.

    Art   Age   Novelists  
    Isaac Bashevis Singer (2004). “Collected Stories: One Night in Brazil to The Death of Methuselah”
  • To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

    Sympathy   Death   Wise  
    Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.162, Routledge
  • If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

  • Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

    Love   Family   Happiness  
    Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.29, Open Road Media
  • The highest art one can learn is the art of loving, and that the ultimate creativity and the highest art are born out of a knack - meditation.

  • Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.7, Open Road Media
  • It is only when you have mastered the art of loving yourself that you can truly love others. it's only when you have opened your own heart that you can touch the hearts of others. when you feel centered and alive, you are in much better position to be a better person.

    Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.53, Jaico Publishing House
  • In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

    Love   Smile   Two  
    Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.101, Open Road Media
  • Giving is the highest expression of potency.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.28, Open Road Media
  • ...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 energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to learn the art of loving. Could it be that only those things are considered worthy of being learned with which one can earn money or prestige, and that love, which "only" profits the soul, but is profitless in the modern sense, is a luxury we have no right to spend energy on?

    Art   Luxury   Soul  
  • Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, Open Road Media
  • Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

  • I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same.

    Art   Book   Reading  
    Alice Munro (1974). “Something I've been meaning to tell you: thirteen stories”, Plume
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