Quote by Erich Fromm
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. – Erich Fromm

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There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love. – Erich Fromm

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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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In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. – Erich Fromm

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If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me? – Mike Tyson

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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. – Thornton Wilder

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Love is the law of life. – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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