Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Quote by Erich Fromm
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Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
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Erich Fromm Quotes
- There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
- There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
- 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.
- The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
- Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
- The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
- 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.
- Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
- Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
- Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
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