Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature... - Erich Fromm
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"
"Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love"
"Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies."
"If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism."
"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."
"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."