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.Erich Fromm
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'Erich Fromm
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.Erich Fromm
If I observe myself in the process of dreaming, I discover that the dream is not projected on a background, or in an empty space, but is surrounded by the continuum of the conscious mental processes. In this observation we find the bridge between the dream and the conscious mental act.Erich Fromm
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.Erich Fromm
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.Erich Fromm
Man can adapt himself to cultural conditions in such a way that he entirely loses the capacity to form an objective relation to himself and to the world.Erich Fromm
A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet 'for sale', who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society.Erich Fromm
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.Erich Fromm
One loves that for which one labors, and one labors for that which one loves.Erich Fromm