Quote by Erich Fromm
Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love say

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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Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. – Erich Fromm

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Greed
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There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. – Erich Fromm

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power
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Mans main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. – Erich Fromm

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Love
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Love is too young to know what conscience is. – William Shakespeare

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The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mothers side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent. – Erich Fromm

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Be it in the garden, the nursery or the bedroom, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman. – Elizabeth I

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Failure is success if we learn from it. – Malcolm Forbes

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Its with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. – Aldous Huxley

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No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos. – D.H. Lawrence

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