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

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

“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

“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