Evaluna Rivera

“I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“Someday I’ll wake up and find they’ve built a maze around me, and I will be relieved.”
― Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All

“For the productive character, giving has an entirely different meaning. Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous.[3] Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“Unless we have faith in the persistence of our self, our feeling of identity is threatened and we become dependent on other people whose approval then becomes the basis for our feeling of identity.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving