Erich Fromm Quotes

I do believe in choice, the freedom of choice and carving out your own happiness.

The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own.

Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

Render yourself free to choose, to be, to live, to see.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

We always have a choice.

Remember you always have freedom of choice.

I do what I love to do. I have awesome people who let me make the choices I want to make. I navigate things by whether I want to play a part or not, to be honest.

You need your freedom. You need to be able to do what you want to do as a journalist, as a person who's speaking for other women as you speak for yourself, and you make a choice. You have to be tough enough to take the consequences of that choice.

You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours.

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized.

I´m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice

Everything you are comes from your choices.

The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.

Here is the crux of the matter, the distilled essence, the only thing you need to remember: When considering whether to say yes or no, you must choose the response that feels like freedom. Period.

The choice is yours. You hold the tiller. You can steer the course you choose in the direction of where you want to be - today, tomorrow, or in a distant time to come.

Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

It was scary. But it was so liberating. I thought, This is not predetermined - I get to choose. There are some days where I have to choose five times in a day. I had to make a choice when you called and the phone rang, whether I'm going to show up and be me, or whether I'm going to say what I think I'm supposed to say and get off the phone.

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.