“Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.”

Erich Fromm

“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.”

Erich Fromm

“In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.”

Erich Fromm

“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...”

Erich Fromm

“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge t...”

Erich Fromm