Erich Fromm Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Family, Marriage

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.44, Open Road Media

• Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.

  Erich Fromm

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.48, Open Road Media

• The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

  Erich Fromm

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only tolerate, she must wish and support the child's separation.

  Erich Fromm

  Mother, Children, Two

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.61, Open Road Media

• Mother is the home we come from.
  She is nature, soil, ocean.

  Erich Fromm

  Mother, Ocean, Home

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.47, Open Road Media

• Mother's love always peace as it not to be acquired nor deserved.

  Erich Fromm

  Mother, Love Always, Mother's Love

• The narcissistic, the domineering, the possessive woman can succeed in being a "loving" mother as long as the child is small. Only the really loving woman, the woman who is happier in giving than in taking, who is firmly rooted in her own existence, can be a loving mother when the child is in the process of separation.

  Erich Fromm

  Mother, Children, Long

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.47, A&C Black

• The mother's and father's attitudes toward the child correspond to the child's own needs.... Mother has the function of making himsecure in life, father has the function of teaching him, guiding him to cope with those problems with which the particular society the child has been born into confronts him.

  Erich Fromm

  Mother, Children, Attitude

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.48, Open Road Media

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