Quote by Erich Fromm
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out

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

Other quotes by Erich Fromm

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. – Erich Fromm

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Recognition
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The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. – Erich Fromm

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Security
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Love
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For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love. – Carl Sagan

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Love

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know its the most exquisite love of all. – Maggie Gallagher

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Love

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. – Jesus Christ

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Love

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small. – Yiddish Proverb

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The first step… shall be to lose the way. – Galway Kinnell

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Hmmm

I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. Ill be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been. – Dennis Franz

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Experience

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression. – Jonathan Sacks

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Freedom