Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a “standing in,” not a “falling for.” In the most general way, the active character of love can be d… - Erich Fromm

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

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.

We forget that, although each of the liberties which have been won must be defended with utmost vigour, the problem of freedom is not only a quantitative one, but a qualitative one; that we not only have to preserve and increase the traditional freedom, but that we have to gain a new kind of freedom, one which enables us to realize our own individual self; to have faith in this self and in life.