Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous.
Erich FrommPeople think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.
Erich FrommFor [Karl] Marx it is socialist society which realizes "concretely" the religious principles of equality, brotherly love, and freedom.
Erich FrommThe affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.
Erich Fromm