” The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother’s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent. ”…
Love is the only satisfactory answer to the human existence
” Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.” Erich Fromm
The paradox is that two people become one but still remain two
” In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.” Erich Fromm
The difference between immature and mature love
” Immature love says: ‘ I love you because i need you.’ Mature love says: ‘I need you because i love you.’” Erich Fromm
Love is an orientation which refers to all objects
” 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 is confronted.…