The most important things we talk about on Sundays are things to which we pay very little attention.
Erich FrommWhat most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
Erich FrommInfantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.
Erich FrommThere is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm[Sigmund Freud] makes the interpretation of dreams extremely simple: it deals in substance with discovering what unconscious desires, distorted but recognizable, are hid-den in the dream. Instead, for me the dream is a mixture of thoughts and sensations that man has when he is asleep, a mental state relatively protected from the constant noise that society makes.
Erich Fromm