Quote #100
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.
More from Erich Fromm
- There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
- There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.
- The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.
- There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
- The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
- There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out …
- The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
- 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.