Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says I need you because I love you. – Erich Fromm
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of ones own self. – Erich Fromm
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. – Erich Fromm
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. – Erich Fromm