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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- In love, the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. – Erich Fromm
- The true lover loves the whole world, in his or her love for a specific person. – Erich Fromm
- Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. – Erich Fromm
- Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. – 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. – Erich Fromm
- “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.” – T.S. Eliot
- “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.” – T.S. Eliot
- There is only one meaning of life, the act of living itself. – Erich Fromm
- Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. – Erich Fromm
- Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. – Erich Fromm