Art Of Loving Quotes

• Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

  Bell Hooks

  Love, Life, Meaningful

  "Time Spent in a Psych Ward" by Erin Nugent, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2015.

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

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Life, Romantic

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.

  Erich Fromm

  Practice, Discipline, Feelings

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• Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Attitude, Character

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• Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

  Booker T. Washington

  Art, Caring, Volunteer

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• ...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to learn the art of loving. Could it be that only those things are considered worthy of being learned with which one can earn money or prestige, and that love, which "only" profits the soul, but is profitless in the modern sense, is a luxury we have no right to spend energy on?

  Erich Fromm

  Art, Luxury, Soul

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• Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there is harmony or conflict; joy or sadness, is secondary to the fundamental fact that two people experience themselves from the essence of their existence, that they are only one with each other by being one with themselves, rather than by fleeing from themselves.

  Erich Fromm

  Moving, Sadness, Essence

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.105, Open Road Media

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• Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Romantic, Faith

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.141, Open Road Media

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• People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.

  Erich Fromm

  Simple, Love Is, Thinking

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Life, Philosophical

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, Open Road Media

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• Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it.

  Erich Fromm

  Loving Nature, Society, Way

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.134, Open Road Media

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• Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Life, Faith

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.141, Open Road Media

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• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

  Laozi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears.

  Erich Fromm

  Real, Love Is, Objectivity

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.119, Open Road Media

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• Giving is the highest expression of potency.

  Erich Fromm

  Expression, Giving, Charity

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

  Erich Fromm

  Selfish, Love You, Greed

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.105, Open Road Media

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• Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering his position and the situation on the personality market. He is alienated from himself, from his fellow men and from nature. His main aim is profitable exchange of his skills, knowledge, and of himself, his "personality package" with others who are equally intent on a fair and profitable exchange. Life has no goal except the one to move, no principle except the one of fair exchange, no satisfaction except the one to consume.p97.

  Erich Fromm

  Moving, Men, Skills

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.107, Open Road Media

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• In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Smile, Two

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.101, Open Road Media

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• Infantile 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 Fromm

  Love, Maturity, Immature

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

  Erich Fromm

  Inspirational, Motivational, Lying

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.29, Open Road Media

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• It is only when you have mastered the art of loving yourself that you can truly love others. it's only when you have opened your own heart that you can touch the hearts of others. when you feel centered and alive, you are in much better position to be a better person.

  Robin Sharma

  Art, Loving Yourself, Alive

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.53, Jaico Publishing House

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• Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with others; love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits him to be himself, to retain his integrity.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Wall, Integrity

  ERICH FROMM (1956). “THE ART OF LOVING”

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• One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

  Erich Fromm

  Sadness, Compassion, Curiosity

  ABC TV, May 25, 1958.

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• The sadistic person is as dependent on the submissive person as the latter is on the former; neither can live without the other. The difference is only that the sadistic person commands, exploits, hurts, humiliates, and that the masochistic person is commanded, exploited, hurt, humiliated. This is a considerable difference in a realistic sense; in a deeper emotional sense, the difference is not so great as that which they both have in common: fusion without integrity .

  Erich Fromm

  Hurt, Integrity, Emotional

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.101, Open Road Media

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

  Erich Fromm

  Sex, Mean, People

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.2, A&C Black

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