Erich Fromm

1.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.

2.Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

3.If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism

4. Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'


5.In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
 
6. Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
 
7. Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
 
8. Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
 
9.Man always dies before he is fully born.
 
10.Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
 
11.Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

12We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
 
13.What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal

A lovely lesson for life!!!!

A student asks a teacher: What is love?
The teacher said: in order to answer your question, go to the paddy
field and choose the biggest paddy and come back.

But the rule is: you can go through them only once and cannot turn back
to pick. The student went to the field, go thru first row, he saw one big paddy,
but he wonders....may be there is a bigger one later. Then he saw another bigger one... but may be there is an even bigger one waiting for him.

Later, when he finished more than half of the paddy field, he start to realize that the paddy is not as big as the previous one he saw, he know he has missed the biggest one, and he regretted. So, he ended up went back to the teacher with empty hand.

The teacher told him, this is love... you keep looking for a better
one, but when later you realize, you have already miss the person