"Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’"
― Erich Fromm
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Love
― Erich Fromm
More From Erich Fromm
- "We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake."
- "Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."
- "Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."
More In Love
- "Love is a game that two can play and both win."― Eva Gabor
- "Another way of judging the value of a prophet’s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message."― Muhammad Iqbal
- "It’s useless to hold a person to anything he says while he’s in love, drunk, or running for office."― Shirley MacLaine