More quotes by Erich Fromm

"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."
"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"
"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."
"Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted."