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The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.

The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.

Erich Fromm
Happiness, Capacity To Love, Growth

Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.

Erich Fromm
Children, Opposites, Growth

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

Erich Fromm
History, Growth, Connections
Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.134, Routledge

Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth.

Erich Fromm
Freedom, Growth, Fundamentals
Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.290, Open Road Media

Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.

Erich Fromm
Love Is, Growth, Art Of Loving
Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.34, Open Road Media

All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.

Erich Fromm
Growth, Desire, Purpose
Erich Fromm (1941). “Escape from Freedom”, Henry Holt & Company

We have faith in the potentialities of others, of ourselves, and of mankind because, and only to the degree to which, we have experienced the growth of our own potentialities, the reality of growth in ourselves, the strength of our own power of reason and love.

Erich Fromm
Love, Reality, Growth
Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.113, A&C Black

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