"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, German psychologist, born 1900
"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime." — Erich Fromm, German psychologist, born 1900
"The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity." — Erich Fromm, German psychologist, born 1900
"When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion." — Erich Fromm, German psychologist, born 1900
"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, German psychologist, born 1900
"Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction." — Erich Fromm, German psychologist, born 1900
"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality." — Erich Fromm, German psychologist, born 1900
"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence." — Erich Fromm, German psychologist, born 1900
"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve." — Erich Fromm, German psychologist, born 1900
"That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane." — Erich Fromm, German psychologist, born 1900
"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness." — Robert Frost, American poet, born 1874
"We begin in infancy by establishing correspondence of eyes with eyes." — Robert Frost, American poet, born 1874