More quotes by Erich Fromm

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"
"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two."
"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."
"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"
"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."