Erich Fromm Quotes

Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.

Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.

Pride makes us do things well. But it is love that makes us do them to perfection.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being until he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.

Each man lives love in his limited fashion and does not seem to relate the resultant confusion and loneliness to his lack of knowledge about love.

I became what I wanted to be.

Untapped potential is the difference between where a person is now and where he or she can be.

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

I do think I fulfilled my potential.

I hope that I'm also maturing emotionally as a human being as things go on.

Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.

Anybody who says that love is a hindrance on the path of self-realization is not a sage.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

Any desire to grow is following the flow of love

I am an acme of things accomplished, and I an encloser of things to be.

The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate; second, including the excluded; third, admitting that you are wrong.

Our purpose is to grow up and become love

We're bigger than we ever dreamed, and I'm in love with being queen.

I sometimes have to look back and say, "Wow, this is amazing what has happened to me. I have been able to fulfill a lot of these dreams that I had when I was very young." It's a pretty amazing feeling. But at the same time it becomes addictive!

What is most important subject you have to learn in life? To learn how to love. This is the challenge that life offers you: to learn bow to love. Not just to accumulate information without knowing what to do with it. But through that love, let that information bear fruit.

If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.

In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.

Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.

Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.