"Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’"
― Erich Fromm
Topic(s): Love
― Erich Fromm
More From Erich Fromm
- "Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others."
- "Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world."
- "The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots."
More In Love
- "If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection."― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- "The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference."― Elie Wiesel
- "If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."― A. A. Milne