Quotes About Relationships

The human desire to experience union with others is rooted in the specific conditions of existence that characterize the human species and is one of the strongest motivators of human behavior.

Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination.

Nesmíme také zapomenout, že masochistické ponížení není opakem sadismu, ale sou?ástí symbiotického systému, v nÄ›mž úplné ovládání a úplné pokoÃ…â"¢ení jsou projevy téže hluboce uložené neschopnosti prožívat plnÄ› sv?j život.

Nema gotovo nijedne aktivnosti, ili poduhvata, koji, kao ljubav, zapo?inju s tako velikim nadama i o?ekivanjima, a koji se ipak tako redovno izjalovljuju.

The polarity of the sexes is disappearing, and with it erotic love, which is based on this polarity. Men and women become the same, not equals as opposite poles.

The field of human relations in Freud's sense is similar to the market—it is an exchange of satisfaction of biologically given needs, in which the relationship to the other individual is always a means to an end but never an end in itself.

The deepest need of man, then, is the need to overcome his separateness, to leave the prison of his aloneness. The absolute failure to achieve this aim means insanity, because the panic of complete isolation can be overcome only by such a radical withdrawal from the world outside that the feeling of separation disappears-- because the world outside, from which one is separated, has disappeared.

Amar a alguien no es meramente un sentimiento poderoso -es una decisión, es un juicio, es una promesa-.

Ben sevdiÄŸim insan?n, bana hizmet etmesi için deÄŸil, kendi istediÄŸince dilediÄŸi gibi büyüyüp geliÅŸmesini isterim. EÄŸer bir baÅŸkasm? sevi- yorsam, onu benim yararlanaca??m bir nesne olarak deÄŸil, o olarak al?r, ister erkek olsun, ister kad?n, onunla kendimi bir k?lar?m.

In una civiltà in cui prevalgono gli orientamenti commerciali e in cui il successo materiale è il valore predominante, c'è poco da sorprendersi se i rapporti d'amore seguono lo stesso modello di scambio che regola la vita pratica.

L'amore non è soltanto una relazione con una particolare persona: è un'attitudine, un orientamento di carattere che determina i rapporti di una persona col mondo, non verso un oggetto d'amore. Se una persona ama solo un'altra persona ed è indifferente nei confronti dei suoi simili, il suo non è amore, ma un attaccamento simbiotico, o un egotismo portato all'eccesso.

In contrast to symbiotic union, mature love is union under the condition of preserving one's integrity, one's individuality. Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unites him with others; love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits him to be himself, to retain his integrity. In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

The ability to love depends on one's capacity to emerge from narcissism

L'amore infantile segue il principio: amo perché sono amato. L'amore maturo segue il principio: sono amato perché amo. L'amore immaturo dice: ti amo perché ho bisogno di te. L'amore maturo dice: ho bisogno di te perché ti amo.

L'atto sessuale senza amore non riempie mai il baratro che divide due creature umane, se non in modo assolutamente momentaneo.

Sembra un paradosso, ma nell'amore due esseri diventano uno, e tuttavia restano due.

L'amore è un sentimento attivo, non passivo; è una conquista, non una resa.

Modern man's feeling of isolation and powerlessness is increased still further by the character which all his human relationships have assumed. The concrete relationship of one individual to another has lost its direct and human character and has assumed a spirit of manipulation and instrumentality. In all social and personal relations the laws of the market are the rule.

En el amor se da la paradoja de dos seres que se convierten en uno y, no obstante, siguen siendo dos.

Real conflicts between two people, those which do not serve to cover up or to project, but which are experienced on the deep level of inner reality to which they belong, are not destructive. They lead to clarification, they produce a catharsis from which both persons emerge with more knowledge and more strength.

Paradójicamente, la capacidad de estar solo es la condición indispensable para la capacidad de amar.

Genuine love increases the capacity to love and to give to others. The true lover loves the whole world, in his or her love for a specific person.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: No hay casi ninguna actividad, ninguna empresa, que comience con tan tremendas esperanzas y expectativas, y que, sin embargo, falle tan regularmente, como el amor (Erich Fromm)

Gustavo Solivellas dice: El amor inmaduro dice: "te amo porque te necesito". El maduro dice: "te necesito porque te amo" (Erich Fromm)