To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is... - Erich Fromm
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."
"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."