Art Of Loving Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Love, Hope, Expectations

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self disappears to a large extent, and where the aim is to belong to the heard. If I am like everybody else, if I have no feeling or thoughts which make me different, if I conform in custom, dress, ideas, to the pattern of the group, I am saved: saved from the frightening experience of aloneness.

  Erich Fromm

  Self, Ideas, Feelings

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

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• If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Life, Attachment

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• The highest art one can learn is the art of loving, and that the ultimate creativity and the highest art are born out of a knack - meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Creativity, Meditation

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