Quotes from Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.

While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given by the simple presence of a mature, loving person.

To be concentrated means to live fully in the present, in the here and now, and not to think of the next thing to be done, while I am doing something right now.

Only in the love of those who do not serve a purpose, love begins to unfold.

What a person considers the minimal necessities depends as much on his character as it depends on his actual possessions.

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.

Love is a power which produces love.

Equality today means "sameness" rather than "oneness".

Psychology as a science has its limitations, and, as the logical consequence of theology is mysticism, so the ultimate consequence of psychology is love.

Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love. Where this active concern is lacking, there is no love.