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
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. – Erich Fromm
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. – Erich Fromm
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind – not the fiend or the sadist. – Erich Fromm