Immature love says: I love you because I need you, Mature love says: I need you because I love you.
-Erich Fromm
Quotations
Love
Man’s love is of man’s life a part; it is a woman’s whole existence.
-Lord Byron
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-Oscar Wilde
Love is a better teacher than duty.
-Albert Einstein
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than it’s opposite.
-Nelson Mandela
The purest love lies where it is least expected- in unattachment.
-Deepak Chopra
When we have not what we love, we must love what we have.
-Anonymous
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
