Erich Fromm Quotes

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.

I've always wanted people to know who they are from the inside. Then they can create the life they desire and deserve. I've always believed that my job was to facilitate the evolution of the human consciousness.